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:
- Open Konsole
- Login as root
- sudo -s
- Make sure that the repository is up to date
- apt-get update
- 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
- 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