I have always developed my Contao websites on a WAMP server under XP Pro. When the site is done, I transfer it to the live server, which is a LAMP installation.
Now, sort of out of curiosity, I've begun to run Ubuntu Linux on my desktop instead of XP Pro and am wondering if I can develop my websites with it. I installed a LAMP, but when I run the contao-check.php file, there are two problems. It says the directory contao-check.php has created is owned by me, at least my Ubuntu login name, but should be owned by root. For the (check)file it has created, the same applies.
Now, if I try to run Apache under root, I get all kinds of warnings, saying, among other things, that I shouldn't run Apache under root, unless I really know what I'm doing (unfortunately, I don't know enough to really know what I'm doing regarding Apache). When I try to install a clean version of Contao, it asks for the FTP credentials, but since I'm running the site on my localhost, I don't know if I can use that, or if I should.
When I develop my sites on windows, I used Wampserver, which is just an .exe file and will install a complete preconfigured on my system. Contao just works there right out of the box. Using a LAMP on Ubuntu is less user friendly, and there is just so much documentation, I don't even know where to start.
Does anybody have any helpful advice?
Thanks in advance.
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