Initial pointers for web based LAMP installation

[Matteo Grämlin]

Hi all

This is what I want to do: On a LAMP server, people are able
to request for an instance of a particular LAMP application
by submitting a few options. That involves creating a couple
of directories, getting the code, writing a config file,
setting file permissions and creating a mysql user.

I can do it except for the interface with a shell script. Because
of the web interface I was told that python is the right language
but I have no knowledge in python.

Could you pl. give me the initial pointers for this scheme?

Matteo