Setting up a test Drupal site

The old Gutsy Gibbon VM was totally screwed up so the Hardy Heron server edition was installed on a new one. It has Drupal 5.7 in the apt-get packages and so installation was a breeze. One thing it should have mentioned was the need to hit the install page, http://ip/drupal5/install.php, to initialize the db and everything else.

Turning clean urls on was as simple as typing two lines of code:
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Then testing the clean urls and turning it on. This may be Ubuntu-specific though.

A bunch of modules were downloaded and installed:
amfphp
cck
image
img_assist
pathauto
services
swfaddress
token
views

The amfphp is a plugin that requires the implementation available here.