Webtrees is software similar to the software on your phone or computer, but with a vital difference. The information on your phone or computer is meant for your eyes only. You may make that information available to someone else, but you don’t allow the whole world to view it. Webtrees is different because the information on Webtrees is meant to be viewed by anyone, anywhere in the world. Instead of appearing on a single screen (your phone) it is served up to anyone who types the address into a web-browser. There are different types of web server, but the most widely used is a shared server, database and software known as a LAMP webserver, and this is what this manual describes.Ī LAMP server uses Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP In the same way your phone software requires a phone, Webtrees requires a web server to serve it up. You can use Webtrees on other types of server but it makes sense to use a Linux server because Linux is a free operating system (which is why most servers use it) and it is easy to administer (which is again why most servers use it) and there is a lot of help online (because so many use it) Linux is an operating system in the same way that Windows and Android are operating systems. Windows is an operating system, but you need other programmes, for example a word processor or image viewer, in order to do anything. Android is an operating system, but you need to add apps in order to do anything. Linux is an operating system, but in order to host a website you need some website hosting software on it. Apache is the world’s most widely used server software. It serves your website up, all the way from the server, to someone’s browser.Īlmost all servers serve up their information from a database, and Webtrees is no different.
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