Download the following software on your local machine Mac,Windows or Linux machine.
MAMP - Mac Apache MySQL PHP
XAMPP - Cross-Platform Windows/Mac - Apache MySQL Php and Perl
WAMP - Windows Apache MySQL PHP
LAMP - Linux Apache MySQL PHP - Comes default in Linux OS
Apache - WebServer
PHP/Perl - Service side Programming language that is used in combination with browser based a.k.a client client languages HTML,CSS and Javascript for your website look and feel
MySQL - database - store data
Once you build your website and have it running on your machine, you could
- Buy domain name
- Buy a domain hosting space and configure LAMP installed on the host.
- Use FTP to move files from local machine to server host
Viola! done
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