This year, finally, I was able to get a 64 bit version of the Linux Webdev application server up and running. The documentation still has errors and omissions, but this year my understanding of Linux was sufficient to bridge the gaps and get the App Server running on a 64 bit Ubuntu Server 16.04 Virtualbox server instance the first time through.
The documentation sometimes still says "apache" rather than "apache2"; indicates that Mandrake is still a viable Linux distro; totally ignores Ubuntu and Suse (I guess assuming that the instructions for Redhat and Debian are sufficient); and assumes that distros still use init.d rather than systemd -- but the instructions, with all their gaps, were sufficient to get the App Server installed in Apache on the first try.
The documentation sometimes still says "apache" rather than "apache2"; indicates that Mandrake is still a viable Linux distro; totally ignores Ubuntu and Suse (I guess assuming that the instructions for Redhat and Debian are sufficient); and assumes that distros still use init.d rather than systemd -- but the instructions, with all their gaps, were sufficient to get the App Server installed in Apache on the first try.