Hello, Apache is a WebServer, that handles "static" content. With modules Handlers, you can extend this to dynamic serve like with PHP or Perl. PHP/Perl are programming Languages, which can be use to "create" static and/or dynamic output on server side. PHP code is written as text file format, and can only be viewed on server side (if you configured your Web Server (Apache), and don't having mistakes (Syntax Errors) in PHP source file. Because Your PHP (HTML) files consists of static text or data. To say the Apache (which serve all content related stuff) a PHP source file can be a normal text file or a combination/mixture of HTML, and PHP code - Apache does all the things what are needed to create a static WebSite. This begin with the HTML tag <?php and end with ?>. Alle code that resides within this block, are served by a PHP Handler, that must be configured in the config file. With Protocols like GET,POST... you can send requests or get responses. Therefore it give AJAX. AJAX is mostly used by JavaScript Textfiles on Client side. JavaScript is a programming Language on Client Side, which extends the HTML file format for dynamic content. To handle the logic of Your WebSite, PHP comes with a bunch of functions. So you can programming a PHP script that create/read/ write a database like MySQL, SQLite, etc.. For this (MySQL) it give a DataBase Server, what is differnt thing as a WebServer like Apache. A DataBase Server can be used for Desktop Applications too. I suggest, "not to have all server service's on one server machines.", because the maintain.. You can configure Your Apache with differnt Office Open Times, with differnt "static" WebSites (can be PHP script or WebServer URL/URI). You can configure Your Apache, to get/send Header informations with rewrite_module. So it is possible to read-out the Browser-Agent what the user used at serve time Your Apache. You can configure Your Apache, to have thousends of Domains, and Subdomains with one IP (without having bind9 - a Domain Name Server (DNS) installed on Your server(s)). You can configure Your Apache to serve WebSites with thousends ipv6 local IP numbers without having direct internet connection. You can configure Your Apache to "protect" content for display, getting with direct direcives or password per user, and password in different password file for each folder or protect folders per ACL groups, ip ranges ... You can configure Your Apache with differnt DocumentRoot folders. I suggest: "not saving htdocs (also all Your content on Windows drive C:. or under Windows User Home folder. So you should always use seperate hard disk partition, and better, not the same disk, and make Backup Your data. This can be done by Your favorite Backup Software or (for cheap) github.com like Software which help You to "save" state's of Your programming process. So it could be possible to "backport" a Project without override the old data.".
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