Ask HN:MAMP like tool for Ubuntu/Linux?

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Does anyone know if a simple MAMP like tool exists for ubuntu/linux? Doesn't have to in GUI, actually preferred that it is not GUI, but a simple tool to add, start and end vhost.

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Would this help? http://www.apachefriends.org/index.html

Isn't MAMP/WAMP's purpose to emulate a Linux environment? Basically, a way of running a LAMP stack application on a Windows machine.

I could be out of my league here and you may have other reasons, but you could just run VM's. Vagrant/Virtualbox takes all the pain away.

Nice thing about MAMP and WAMP is the control GUI, start stop services, also specify the current web root, etc. I would like to see a nice local webhost control GUI in Linux for my web development.

Could this be what you are looking for? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP

I'm looking for something more like

cmd 'app add site Test' - this would create the vhost file, put it in sites-enabled with the doc root.

something that is cmd line or api driven would be best. I'd love to try and build some kind of simple web panel for. I just see the cpanel and the likes are too complicated and want to bring something simple like Digital Oceans cp to the world.

There is a product called: XAMPP for linux which is the linux version of XAMPP/WAMP or whatever the name of it is now.

a2ensite + a2dissite for enabling/disabling a vhost; for adding one, I have a template in /etc/apache2/sites-available, copy that and then edit

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