Web Development

The purpose here is to build a virtual machine that will be used as a LAMP web development environment.

It will be based on a Debian Wheezy OS, with an Apache2 HTTP server, allowing to select a specific PHP version to run for each virtual host through PhpFarm run via suexec.
We'll also add Xdebug to facilitate PHP code debugging.

Finally, MySQL will also be installed as database management system.

Install a Debian Wheezy system from Debian's stable netboot-mini.iso image.

You can refer to this section of the wiki for more in-depth information on how to do this.

We'll have 2 adapters set up for this VM, one for local communication on a 172.20.20.x address and another one for internet access via DHCP.

It is now time to install the HTTP Server (Apache2).