I am wanting to host a small site at home and have installed Apache etc like this :
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tasksel
sudo tasksel install lamp-server
That all worked and everything is up and running.
Now I am used to working with XAMPP to develop and I did not want to use that live as many references said it was not very secure.
So my question is, now that I have Apache/PHP & MySql installed by the above method; how is the level of security by default ?
Is there ways to make it more secure and perhaps a check-list or run-down of any changes that might be recommended ?
Clarification : the LAMP server would be a live site, not one in development.