title: Ubuntu lamp-server vs separate installations?
body: <p><strong>Is there a difference in using lamp-server vs installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP separately by themselves?</strong></p>
  
  <p>I am transferring a website from Windows to Linux. It is a dynamic MySQL + PHP website running on a local network. The website is accessible by other computers both on WiFi and Ethernet that are on the same network.</p>
  
  <p>I have used WampServer before for localhost-only training purposes as well as the Apache, MySQL, and PHP by themselves for the public website. The server is going to use Python for some CGI scripts as well.</p>
  
  <p>I know that WampServer is mostly used for training and not for hosting open websites, so I wonder if it is similar in LAMP stack.</p>
  
  <p>The computer is going to have Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 7 installed on different partitions of the same machine.</p>
  
  <p>Finally, could someone please provide a good guide on the difference in configurations between Ubuntu and Windows versions of Apache? (Where are the config, htdocs, and log files; how to monitor and manage MySQL and Apache?)</p>