>sure you could just drop PHP in place, but you still needed that host. Setting anything up yourself required twiddling with Apache and mod_php (or using a dist

>sure you could just drop PHP in place, but you still needed that host. Setting anything up yourself required twiddling with Apache and mod_php (or using a distro that shipped with packages that enabled it by default). php has builtin webserver since 5.4. that's like 5-6 years ago