http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

• XAMPP is a prepackaged web server
• Runs on multiple platforms (Linux, Windows, etc.)
• Includes Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl
• Includes PHPMyAdmin for database management
• Includes SSL support
• Simple installation

su
cd /opt
wget http://www.apachefriends.org/download.php?xampp-linux-1.7.7.tar.gz
tar -xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.7.tar.gz

You need to start the server as 'root' since low-numbered poerts are used.

/opt/lampp/lampp start

/opt/lampp/lampp stop

http://localhost

ln -s /home/username/Desktop/file.name /opt/lampp/htdocs/