Can anyone recommend a good, free Ubuntu Server VMWare Image (or Virtual Appliance, as they call them)? I have looked on the VMWare VAM and there are literally hundreds to choose from.

I am looking for something that can with very minimal effort serve as a development platform for LAMP applications (so it should have all of those installed, plus things like PhpMyAdmin).

Bonus points if there is some way to create new Virtual Hosts (for developing and testing new sites) on Apache without having to go digging around conf files and guessing on the sytax.


Solution 1:

Head straight to Canonical for the VMWare images

Or checkout the the ThoughtPolice folks

Solution 2:

If you're running Windows, there's always WAMP, which should get you Apache, MySQL, PHP (the -AMP parts), and so on.