microduma - 7:50 pm on Nov 11, 2008 (gmt 0)

I have done minor local web site development on Windows, and a working WAMP was a snap to install via Apache2Triad. Currently I am running Ubuntu 8.4 (desktop edition), and returning to WIndows is not an option. I now have to install LAMP to run Drupal on, quite urgently. My knowledge of Linux will gradually increase, but I still find it a bit overwhelmed by it at present; half the problem is that there is so much to learn, and the other half is that there is so much information available!.

Is there a way in which I may quickly set up LAMP, in such a way that the data on my server data can only be accessed by myself? Any suggestions would be appreciated.