I stumbled upon this article and I must say it’s a great guide for getting both of these applications up and running correctly. I now use a slightly modified process to create new projects on my dev server. This in conjunction with a quick and dirty WordPress blog installed on my dev server’s root for posting links to the various parts of my new project and it’s an impromptu development environment!

Also on a side note, I switched away from Gentoo to CentOS for my dev server. Not that I do not enjoy Gentoo (I’m a geek, give it a break) but I needed a turn-key enviroment for development. So far I’ve been satisfied with CentOS. Since it’s based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux it’s solid as a rock and help is easy to find.