kevin001 wrote:Dose Apache works exactly like an online server ?
Not clearly answerable.
following i assume by "Apache" you mean "Apache HTTPD" and not "Apache Tomcat" or another Apache project.
kevin001 wrote:Can I set a cookie on an apache server?
You can set Cookies with Apache HTTPD module
mod_headersBut i believe that is not what you want to do.
kevin001 wrote:Dose Apache suppot php [...]
Apache HTTPD supports to implement an PHP interpreter. It can not natively parse php code.
kevin001 wrote:[...] MySql [...]
rudimentary with
mod_dbdBut i believe that is not what you want to do
kevin001 wrote:[...] AJAX [...]
AJAX doesn't make sense without a serverside running programming language, so natively: no.
kevin001 wrote:XML
XML is just a plain text format. Apache HTTPD can output all plain text formats like HTML, XML, txt, YAML, etc. But the magic behind this have to be done by a serverside programming language or clients browser.
kevin001 wrote:Actually WHAT is the differene, if any, between a web host on the internet and an Apache server on my PC (localhost) ?
The difference between what?
The better question would be: What is a HTTP daemon (HTTPD).
A HTTP Daemon is a HTTP (HTTP is a transfer protocol for hypertext - e.g. html) compliant webserver that listens for requests to response.
More informations on that:
http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/FAQhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTPDbtw:
localhost is just a named alias hostname for for your very own computer, routed by your loopback network interface.
if you ask me, you should now take some time to learn the basics. That is very important to understand what you want and what you need for that.