Basic setup for web development
Following up my previous post, A Modern Web Development Workflow in Windows, I’ve created this small step-by-step configuration guide for a VM with ubuntu server using VM Ware.
This is mostly for myself, as future reference, but you can also use this 10 steps to install and configure your own local environment.
1. Download the latest Ubuntu server distribution compatible with your machine
You can find here, all the latest releases : http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server
2. Download the latest VMware Player
VMware player is a FREE tool for personal use, and you can download it from:
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/free#desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_player/6_0
3. Create a new Virtual Machine in VMware
I used the following specs for my setup:
- 2 Gb RAM
- 2 Core processor
- 5 Gb Disk Space
4. Install Ubuntu Server
As easy as clicking next in every screen
5. Start your new Virtual Machine
Selecting the correspondent item in the menu, and click “Play Virtual Machine”
6. Change Keyboard layout
After installing and as a Portuguese, I need to change my keyboard layout.
(Skip this step if you don’t need a special keyboard layout).
You can achieve it running the following command, and then selecting the desired keyboard layout
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
7. Next, we’ll install Open-SSH
As simple as running the command:
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
8.Install PuTTY
As I hate to lose mouse focus when I need to access my virtual machine, the next step is installing PuTTY on my PC.
You can download it from here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
9. Login via Putty
In order to login using PuTTY on your virtual machine you need to know your IP address, this is a very simple command and very similar to the one we use in windows
ifconfig
10. Installing LAMP
The final step of the initial configuration is installing LAMP, on your Ubuntu Server.
You can download and follow the installation instructions from:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-linux.html#374
These are the basic configuration steps for installing LAMP on a virtual machine, in order to use it efficiently in web and WordPress development I’ve found a couple of other tweaks that makes it faster, easier and even more awesome. I’ll share those in a next post.