Practical Linux DevOps: Building a Linux Lab for Modern Software Development

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J. S. TonelloPractical Linux DevOpshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8318-9_6

6. Installing MariaDB and Creating a Simple Web Application

John S. Tonello¹  

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Baldwinville, NY, USA

 

In Chapter 5, you deployed three of the four pieces necessary for your LAMP stack, and you learned how Apache and PHP can work together on a Linux host to serve up dynamic content. In this chapter, you’ll add the database component: MariaDB. The simple application you’ll create will read some information from a database table and show it in a browser.

In this chapter, you’ll first learn some MariaDB and Structured Query Language (SQL) basics to see how data is stored in a database ...