We at YIPL have the usual LAMP stack running on a Ubuntu 8.10 server, which also acts like a Desktop without much performance hassle. The LAMP stack we have had for the past one year had PHP running as mod_php. This setup is pretty easy without much configuration changes to what came in by default.

• Originally, Apache ran as www-data with limited access to anywhere else.
• The default folder was /var/www with 777 permission settings to get rid of any possible permission headache.
• PHP ran as mod_php