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Local Web Server For Web Development?

Posted by timothy on from the start-the-daemon dept.

gwilymgj writes "I have been running Apache/MySQL for years using XAMP and WAMP on windows for web development. Recently I switched to using Ubuntu in VMware player, it is much faster and it also introduces me to a 'real' reason to play with Linux (been looking for a 'real' reason for ages). Are there any specific distributions which allow you to have a virtual webserver on your desktop? Any tips and tricks out there for this?"

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  1. Re:all Linux distros allow this by mstahl · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's kind of hard to understand why, if he already had XAMP and WAMP, he'd want to be using anything else as a simple development environment. For testing prior to deployment a VM is great; even better—if downtown would actually cost you enough money it's worth doubling up—get a second hosting just like your production one and call it staging.

    Also, it's worth pointing out that Gentoo has great support for CMSes and similar things via the webapp-config command. It took me a few tries to realize how much more convenient it is. It just puts all the vhost stuff in a new file in /etc/apache2/vhost.d/ directory to reflect what it installed. Very convenient! I *think* it supports nginx too if you want to turn to the dark side.

  2. Funny, we do the opposite by smchris · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Run XP in Qemu/kvm on Debian. I guess windows give you IIS development.

    I vote "whatever" with many. You've used Ubuntu, stick with Ubuntu.