1. Development Server for
LAMP Environment
How to set up dedicated development server for team of PHP
developers

2. Using developer’s station
Pros
• Always available
Cons
• Big time efforts for new team member to set up environment
• Environment not consistent
• Too complex to use additional software under Windows or Mac
operation systems
• Not possible to share results

3. Using virtual machine
Pros
• More-less consistent environment
Cons
• Hard to maintain for junior and regular developers
• Hard to synchronize environment changes between team
• Use resources of developer’s station
• Not possible to share results

4. Using Vagrant
Pros
• Consistent environment
Cons
• Not of all software can be configured
• Additional complexity for developers to support vagrant configuration
• Use resources of developer’s machine
• Not possible to share results

5. Using development server
Pros
• Consistent environment for everyone
• New team member doesn’t required to set up environment
• Results can be shared to everyone using company’s DNS (or hosts file)
• Ability to work remotely without hard dependency of environment
• High available editors VIM, Emacs, Cloud9 IDE 
Cons
• Single point of failure 

6. FTP based development server
Pros
• Simple to set up
Cons
• No sandbox
• No isolations

7. Apache2 virtual hosts based
development server
Pros
• Separated by virtual host
Cons
• Hard to set up new virtual hosts

8. Linux users based development server
Pros
• Sandbox for every user
• No restrictions with virtual hosts
Cons
• Relatively hard to set up

9. Mass virtual hosting
URL: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/mass.html
Project URLs: http://<project>.<developer>.dev.example.com
Mapped path: /home/<developer>/vhosts/<project>

10. Multiple php5 evnironment

11. Multiple php5 environment
1. Main apache2 listen 80 port
2. Proxy php5x.<project>.<developer>.dev.example.com to
apache2:8x instance

12. User environment
mod_macro: http://people.apache.org/~fabien/mod_macro
error_log
Xdebug configuration
Mysql default user

13. Links
• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html
• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/mass.html
• http://people.apache.org/~fabien/mod_macro/
• http://www.tin.org/bin/man.cgi?section=8&topic=update-rc.d
• mailto:andrei_stsiapanau@epam.com