Long description

The figure shows a local operating system, a browser, and a P H P module within a web server environment placed on a plane surface in the clockwise direction starting from the top left of the plane. The procedure to host the web server locally is shown as follows:

Step 1: Start Web server environment.

A request is sent from the browser to the server.

Step 2: Request for local P H P resource is handled by local running Web Server.

Step 3: Web Server delegates execution to bundled P H P module.

The result of the execution is sent back to the web server.

Step 4: Output sent to the web server is then returned to the browser.

Step 5: The output is displayed in the Web browser.

Steps 1 and 3 are executed in the Web Server.

Steps 2, 4 and 5 are executed in the Local Operating System.