Installation: LAMP

This article explains how to prepare development on your machine, nowadays Ubuntu/Mac is the best choice for web-development, so the explanation will be based on Ubuntu.

First of all launch terminal, it is the main and most important tool for us

Update your system:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Install LAMP server using tasksell:

sudo apt-get install tasksel
sudo tasksel install lamp-server

Once this step is done you will have apache server with PHP installed, open browser and type http://localhost/ to check

Enable mod_rewrite and restart apache

sudo a2enmod rewrite
service apache2 restart

Mongodb

sudo apt-get remove mongodb-org
echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian wheezy/mongodb-org/3.0 main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.0.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mongodb-org 
service mongod status

Install git

sudo apt-get install git

Install needed php extensions

sudo apt-get install php5-curl php5-intl php5-mongo

Install composer globally

php -r "readfile('https://getcomposer.org/installer');" | php
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Install Node.js,NPM,Bower,Grunt

sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy
sudo apt-get install npm
sudo npm install bower -g
sudo npm install -g grunt-cli