Even in the Ubuntu Server 9.04 there is a nice LAMP option with Apache, PHP and MySQL, some more steps are necessary to turn Ubuntu Server 9.04 into a real Drupal development environment. After these steps, you will have a development server, where all Drupal versions, unlimited number of domains and development projects can be set up. Use this tutorial to get a more sophisticated Drupal development environment. And don't forget, there is a simple way in Ubuntu 9.04 for Drupal 6: sudo apt-get install drupal6

I have started a series of tutorials to describe how to set up a Drupal development environment on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) LAMP server. This LAMP server can be a virtual machine over VMware server.

Session 1: Setting up the LAMP server as a virtual machine
Session 2: Additional components to the LAMP server: webmin, phpMyAdmin, NFS, PHP GD library
Session 3: Configuring the LAMP server: networking, NFS, firewall
Session 4: Drupal install

Here we are going to upgrade to the latest packages, install Webmin and phpMyAdmin, the NFS common module, and some supplementary modules to PHP. At the end of this session, we will have all the components we need for the Drupal development environment.

Some hints to VMware maintenance upgrades, new kernel versions, and so on.

Last update on 21.06.2008.

I have set up a Drupal development environment, running as a virtual machine on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy) host and VMware Server 1.0.4. It results in an virtual Ubuntu LAMP server, configured for Drupal development. Each configuration tip, PHP or database version, try-and-error game or development project can have its own "guest" environment, but your "host" environment remain clear and simple.

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The use case