An option is to use a pre-packaged virtual machine image with the main web application that you want if it's available, for example from http://bitnami.com/ htt

An option is to use a pre-packaged virtual machine image with the main web application that you want if it's available, for example from http://bitnami.com/ http://bitnami.com/ or the Amazon AWS public store or installing one locally (VMware or VirtualBox Virtual Appliances etc)