This is an aide-memoire going through the steps of creating an Ubuntu virtual machine for rails development. - byelipk/ubuntu_rails_postgres_setup ...
Note: my instructions below are stitched together from old notes, but you may find them helpful--and a good cheatsheet from time to time. I believe the current stable version is 9.3.x...at the most ...
Familiar with linux, but I mostly do simple app installs, and I'm new to PHP (and Postgres on Linux, specifically). Most of my web dev experience is with .NET. Apache2 is working fine, and so is PHP5 ...