The Difference Between a Server and a Web Application Server
Another thing I should probably have known…
When your browser goes out on the Interwebs to find the webpage www.davidcroushore.com, it sends out a request to a server and that server finds the page and sends back some HTML, which the browser then renders as a beautifully simple white page with a lot of text on it.
Sometimes, though, you go to a site that’s a little more involved than just a bunch of text and pictures, and so your browser doesn’t just ask for some HTML, it gives some information to a server that needs to be processed by some web application before the HTML can get sent back. That’s where an application server comes in.
Today I installed Apache on my local drive, which is a server. Tomorrow, I’ll get PHP working (I already have mySQL for those who might be curious), which will let me set up an application server. Of course, since this is just on my personal computer it won’t do a whole lot. I can do some development, but nothing can really go into production that way.
Still… it’s a start.
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