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I love LAMP

A close colleague of mine recently spoke of his desire to create a website driven with a database. I told him he wanted LAMP:
Linux
Apache
MySQL
PHP

I have Ubuntu 8.04 installed at home, so I referred to this guide:
[ubuntu.com]

There are others as well:
[lamphowto.com]
[redhat.com]

Now, about integrating the code for the website into version control and a bug tracker...
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