Try dropping files in an environment where apache / php is not installed, or where db drivers or gd bindings are missing. Or try to set it up with nginx and php

Try dropping files in an environment where apache / php is not installed, or where db drivers or gd bindings are missing. Or try to set it up with nginx and php5-fpm. There is a big difference in being ubiquitious and being easy to use, and lets not infer casuality where there is none. Most popular PHP projects come with a good installer, but go to sourceforge and try a lesser known project. Or go back to the 90s and see if installing drupal or wordpress was as easy. I can argue that shell scripting is the best programming language by this logic.