When I started at the Incommunities team in Bradford, they had no development environment for their live web site. One of my first tasks was therefore to source a PC, install Debian Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, PHPMyAdmin, Xdebug and GIT source control. I then set this up on their internal network and scheduled regular backups to an internal shared file-system.
This server was my workhorse throughout my contract and was adopted by the resident development team.