(Tips) How To Setup an Ubuntu LAMP Development Server

Tips : How To Setup an Ubuntu LAMP Development Server

Overview
This tutorial has been updated to work with Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron), but should also work well on earlier versions of Ubuntu. The intent is to provide step-by-step instructions to help you with the server setup of a complete development workstation on Ubuntu. This flexible setup will allow you to easily develop for multiple clients/projects AND work on multiple versions of Drupal. Although this tutorial was originally posted by grugnog, but has been edited and maintained by the Drupal community. If you find something incorrect, know a better "best practice", or something simply doesn't work, please leave a comment and we'll fix the tutorial. But if you know how to correct the tutorial, please just update the wiki.

Details on Multi Vhost setup
This tutorial may seem incomplete. That's because part of a series of posts found in the DrUbuntu group. After you've completed this your server setup, you might want to know the details on how/why we chose this configuration. Be Sure to visit the Drubuntu HOWTO that provides an overview and links that explain how to install and configure an Ubuntu/LAMP/Eclipse Drupal development environment.

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Courtesy : http://groups.drupal.org