Using a LAMP architecture

By drew@dfargo.com
Categories: meta

I recently migrated my website from Github Pages to a more standard hosting provider. My goal was to allow more flexibility for the simple weblogging language (SWL) I've been developing for the past year. Previously, I had a program which statically generated my website from SWL sources. This worked fine, but would require re-generating each relevant HTML file if I made changes to the formatter.

Now I'm using a LAMP architecture (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), which uses a PHP renderer to interpret my SWL files. This is ideal, since the processing time is minimal, and allows for changes in the PHP renderer without affecting underlying sources. MySQL has offered even more advantages than I'd first hoped too. Sparing technical details that may follow in a future post, I've allowed for multiple authors on my site, and the potential for comments in the near future.

Good day!