Local Server using Ubuntu to test web pages - MAMP Alternative

So I do a lot of web development and I have grown to like using local servers to do my web development. Normally I do web development using Mac OSX, I have a macbook pro. But I have recently installed Ubuntu 13.10 and I would like to do development on Ubuntu as well.

The way I manage my data sharing is that I have a "data partition" that is on a ntfs file system, which is where I store my projects. I would like to be able to set apache virtual hosts to these various project directories.

How can I set this up with the correct configuration, and where do I even research to do this?

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There is a decent tutorial for installing Apache/MySQL/PHP on Ubuntu here:

Bitnami also offer an easy installer that throws in a bunch of other useful stuff igf you prefer:

Then you will need to read up on virtual hosts in Apache :-

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