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MODx Web Development > 2. Getting Started
This chapter takes you through setting up and running MODx. It also refers to online documentation resources and discusses how to get community help. It sets the base for developing the example application in this book.
This section of the book will help you to install MODx and verify that it is working.
The following is the list of software packages that have to be installed for MODx to work. If you have them installed and configured already, you can skip this section. Otherwise, you can read only the instructions that are specific to your operating system.
- PHP
- MySQL
- Apache
MODx is built using PHP, which stands for PHP hypertext processor. PHP is a server side language and we need a web server that can interpret PHP. We are using Apache for this, which is the most widely used web server. Apache is not really a prerequisite, any web server that can interpret PHP would do.
