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| 2 | = Setting up a development workstation = |
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| 4 | As our web sites become more complicated and more critical to our work, having a development version of your web site running in a non-public place becomes more and more important. With a development workstation, you can make and test your changes privately to ensure that they work before copying your changes to the live site. With Debian Linux, you can setup a development workstation that uses the same software used on the May First/People Link servers. |
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| 6 | Below is a tutorial for installing Debian Linux on a computer for the purposes of developing Web-based applications that use Apache, PHP, and MySQL. |
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| 8 | == Installing Debian == |
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| 10 | == Installing PHP, Apache, and MySQL == |
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| 12 | == Configuring PHP, Apache, and MySQL == |
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| 14 | == Steps to create a new project == |