Well after learning from about 3 months of setting up web servers and all the applications to run a decent website I finally stumbled on this one. This program is awesome it is an all enclusive Apache, MySql, PHP, and Perl installer. Hense the name the x stands for cross platform it runs on linux, windows, solaris. Some pretty nerdy stuff but cool check it out. XAMPP
xampp Server
Love the XAMPP. Takes the pain out of making a new development/production server