While Apache is certainly not zero configuration, it is pretty easy to forget about the Apache part of the LAMP stack. When I got started making websites, I downloaded "WAMP" (windows-apache-mysql-php). It took care of all the configuration and I could, as the author said, drop my code in a www folder and be off to the races.

Similarly, lots of hosting providers wouldn't expose the guts of Apache to developers. They would give you some sftp credentials, and let you upload whatever PHP files you wanted. No need to think about Apache configurations (except maybe a few htaccess files).

On centos it was pretty near zero config. With Wamp it was a windows install file and had a neat stack together.

Back on my c64 I turned it on, no booting and could just start writing code.

We've moved away from this sadly.

Anybody could make any language in any app deployed to anything as simple as `sh scripts/build.sh && teraform apply` in my eyes.