I'm needing to design a work order management system that will be accessed via a web browser, using PHP, and will interface with an arbitrary embedded database. For the time being this application will be stand alone, and will need to have a very easy setup. I want to stay away from a full blown Apache setup for the time being. Obviously I will need some sort of web server to serve up the PHP pages, and anything that can't be built into the database or PHP will probably be written in Python. I'm thinking it might be easiest to have everything built into this single Python instance, but I'm up for suggestions.
Really what I'm trying to stay away from is having multiple services running at any given time that all need updating and maintenance. I'll be running this at work on a single machine and it will need to keep a low profile. Any suggestions?
