Dynamic web page: example of server-side scripting (PHP and MySQL).
PC clients communicating via network with a web server serving static content only.
Sample form. The form is enclosed in an HTML table for visual layout.
When a request to a dynamic web page or resource is made, the application server processes the request using its server-side language.
The inside and front of a Dell PowerEdge server, a computer designed to be mounted in a rack mount environment. It is often used as a web server.
Registration form of PHP-based e-commerce web-shop software ZenCart
Multiple web servers may be used for a high traffic website.
Web server farm with thousands of web servers used for super-high traffic websites.
ADSL modem running an embedded web server serving dynamic web pages used for modem configuration.
First web proposal (1989) evaluated as "vague but exciting..."
The world's first web server, a NeXT Computer workstation with Ethernet, 1990. The case label reads: "This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!"
Sun's Cobalt Qube 3 – a computer server appliance (2002, discontinued)
PC clients connected to a web server via Internet
PC clients communicating via network with a web server serving static and dynamic content.
Directory listing dynamically generated by a web server.
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Market share of all sites for most popular web servers 2005–2021
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Market share of all sites for most popular web servers 1995–2005

A resource sent from a web server can be a preexisting file (static content) available to the web server, or it can be generated at the time of the request (dynamic content) by another program that communicates with the server software.

- Web server

Using server-side scripting to change the supplied page source between pages, adjusting the sequence or reload of the web pages or web content supplied to the browser. Server responses may be determined by such conditions as data in a posted HTML form, parameters in the URL, the type of browser being used, the passage of time, or a database or server state.

- Dynamic web page

These capabilities, along with the multimedia features of NCSA's Mosaic browser (also able to manage HTML FORMs in order to send data to web server) highlighted the potential of web technology for publishing and distributed computing applications.

- Web server

A program running on a web server (server-side scripting) is used to generate the web content on various web pages, manage user sessions, and control workflow.

- Dynamic web page

The de facto client-side scripting language for web sites is JavaScript.

- Form (HTML)

CGIs may be written in other languages than Perl (compatibility with multiple languages is a design goal of the CGI protocol) and there are other ways to make Perl scripts interoperate with a web server than using CGI (such as FastCGI, Plack or Apache's mod_perl).

- Form (HTML)
Dynamic web page: example of server-side scripting (PHP and MySQL).

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Hypertext Transfer Protocol

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Application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.

Application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.

URL beginning with the HTTP scheme and the WWW domain name label
Tim Berners-Lee
An HTTP/1.1 request made using telnet. The request message, response header section, and response body are highlighted.

A web browser, for example, may be the client whereas a process, named web server, running on a computer hosting one or more websites may be the server.

In HTTP/1.1 instead a TCP connection can be reused to make multiple resource requests (i.e. of HTML pages, frames, images, scripts, stylesheets, etc.).

Some web applications need to manage user sessions, so they implement states, or server side sessions, using for instance HTTP cookies or hidden variables within web forms.

PHP

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General-purpose scripting language geared toward web development.

General-purpose scripting language geared toward web development.

This is an example of PHP code for the WordPress content management system.
The elePHPant, PHP mascot
A "Hello World" application in PHP 7.4 running on its built-in development server
Example output of the phpinfo function in PHP 7.1
A broad overview of the LAMP software bundle, displayed here together with Squid
Dynamic web page: example of server-side scripting (PHP and MySQL)

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.

He extended them to work with web forms and to communicate with databases, and called this implementation "Personal Home Page/Forms Interpreter" or PHP/FI.

PHP/FI could be used to build simple, dynamic web applications.