Drupal Servers

One of the things you have to learn if you are going to be a true Drupal Ninja is to setup your own LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP/Perl) stack for your web server. Even if you aren't running Drupal, knowing how to setup and manage your LAMP stack is essential to web development. Basically, each operating system has a little bit different setup to it's Apache MySQL and PHP server setup. This particular tutorial is to help setup a LAMP server stack on your Debian 5 (Lenny) or Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) or less. It seems that the distribution packages available for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) contain PHP 5.3, which many web software have not been upgraded to work with yet. Because of this, I do not recommend running Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) if you plan on running Drupal on your server. Drupal doesn't play nicely with PHP 5.3.

The installation and setup of a Drupal server has come a long way since it's birth. Over the past year alone the setup process has become much more simplified, especially with the release of Drupal 6. Drupal 5 installations require a few minor tweaks in order to get the most out of your Drupal server. Drupal 6 on the other hand, has many of those other steps taken out and are just part of the installation process now.