This article will help you to install an Apache web server with PHP and MySQL support on your Amazon Linux instance (sometimes called a LAMP web server or LAMP stack). You can use this server to host a static website or deploy a dynamic PHP application that reads and writes information to a database.
MySQL

Connect WordPress with Remote Database (MySQL)
WordPress is a free and open-source blogging tool and a content management system(CMS) based on PHP and MySQL, Where MySQL is a database system used on the WordPress. When we are developing the WordPress website on local server we need to create a new database on our local server to install WordPress or we can also connect a WordPress with remote database.
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