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Now that KAMP has successfully been set up on a Kubuntu box, setting up multiple sites on one server is the next logical step. This allows you to do Drupal testing in multiple versions/setups at the same time on one localhost server. To begin, open up Konsole (command line utility) and change to the Apache2 sites-available directory (this is where Apache stores the setup files for each Virtual Host):

cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/

Next, login as root and copy the existing default setup file and name it to the "server" you want to use:

Using your favorite text editor, modify the newly copied file so that it points to the correct files (using VI in this example):

vi exampleSite

Modify/Add the following lines:

NameVirtualHost * to NameVirtualHost exampleSite:80
<VirtualHost *> to <VirtualHost exampleSite:80>
Add ServerName exampleSite
DocumentRoot /var/www/ to DocumentRoot /var/www/exampleSite/

Lullabot developer Addi Berry put together some great screencasts on how to setup local Drupal test environments on Windows, Mac, and Ubuntu. Even though I have been running Kubuntu as my primary OS at home for over a month now, I hadn't actually set up my test server yet! To make sure I didn't make a misstep, I used Addi's video as the basis for the setup I did on my machine, but command lineified it a bit:

1. Open Konsole
2. Login as root
   • sudo -s
3. Make sure that the repository is up to date
   • apt-get update
4. Install Apache, MySQL, PHP5, the PHP5 GD Library, and the PHP5 MySQL configuration
   • apt-get install apache2 mysql-client mysql-server php5 php5-gd php5-mysql
5. Enable Clean URLs in the conf file
   • vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
   • press i to go into insert mode
   • Change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All in the <Directory /var/www/> section
   • press esc