AWS Lambda Serverless

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May 1, 2020 44 minutes Watch

PHP is a general-purpose scripting language especially suited to web development. It was originally created by programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994 and released to the world in 1995. PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, but it now stands for the recursive initialism PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP code is usually processed on a web server by a PHP interpreter implemented as a module, a daemon or as a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) executable Top companies that use PHP include Wikipedia, Slack and Facebook.

WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP. It is paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system, referred to within WordPress as Themes. WordPress was originally created as a blog-publishing system when it was released in 2003. Top companies that use this product include TechCrunch, The New Yorker, and BBC America.

Just Some Of What You'll Learn

  • Setting Up Ubuntu OS in the Cloud
  • Apache2
  • PHP
  • Wordpress
  • SSH
  • Full Stack Development
  • Virtual Hosts

Who Is This For?

This quick course is for those looking to learn how to build their own custom web server running PHP & Wordpress in the cloud.

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Meet Chris Hawkes

Chris Hawkes is a Senior Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience working for Fortune 500 companies. He’s taught more than 20 million students on YouTube and over 25,000 on Udemy.

Some of his work has been used by universities around the world and sponsored by some of the largest companies in Information Technology.