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by mgkimsal 4849 days ago
apt-get install apache apt-get install mod-php5 apt-get install php5-pdo-mysql

whatever the packages are - there's about 4-5 core packages (yum/apt/whatever) or other packages like xampp that set up a default environment in about 5 minutes on most modern systems.

There's certainly a lot of configuration that can be done, but getting a LAMP system set up to allow PHP/MySQL to work is trivial these days compared to 2000.

Cue the puppet and chef supporters who would suggest scripted recipes for everything anyway. :)