You can use docker, so the OS doesn't matter and you don't need to install a webserver, php, mysql and other things on your main system. Even if you use Ubuntu

You can use docker, so the OS doesn't matter and you don't need to install a webserver, php, mysql and other things on your main system. Even if you use Ubuntu as your main system it's good idea to use docker for you local environment. If you need a starting point I have a example on GitHub that may help you: https://github.com/bhdzllr/localhost/tree/master/docker-lemp https://github.com/bhdzllr/localhost/tree/master/docker-lemp It's a LEMP stack. You need to change the volumes in the "docker-compose.yaml" to match to your system and adapt and copy the "nginx/default.conf" into the volume path of nginx. The "nginx/default.conf" has some examples which you may delete.