Part 2 – “Creating a Virtual Development Environment”

In the previous article to this series, we got our Ubuntu server appliance up and running. We can also access it directly through our VMWare client. In this article, we will look at how to connect to our VM through SSH in order to run commands from a Telnet client, as well as FTP into our server. (more…)

Part 1 of “Creating a Virtual Development Environment”

In this small series, I am going to show you how to setup a virtual machine. We are going to setup an Ubuntu LTS Server that runs your typical LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) configuration. I will also discuss additional tools I use for development. I will finish by setting up a Virtual Host that you can access through the desktop. This article will focus on setting up Ubuntu as a virtual machine. (more…)