After installing an testing your web server you will want to add your own site for it to serve. This guide is to help you set up a folder that will contain your websites. It follows on from the Setting up a development Apache 2 web-server guide. Steps 1 to 3 are required while step 4 is optional. The use of virtual servers will be covered in the next tutorial.
In this guide substitute [username] for your username.
The most common type of web-server available is based on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) bundle, so in this tutorial I will cover creating a web development server based on these components. Another common component is phpMyAdmin which is a web base MySQL administration tool so we are going to include it in our tutorial.
This tutorial guides you through installing Apache 2, MySQL 5, PHP 5 and phpMyAdmin for use as a development web-server on Ubuntu Linux. All these packages are available in the Ubuntu software centre at the versions we require.
