Below is a very thorough tutorial for configuring the Lithium PHP web framework to work flawlessly in Ubuntu. It takes you through steps which prevent several issues that are commonly encountered when configuring Lithium on Ubuntu, such as setting up permissions for the template directory correctly.
- Here is the link: http://www.blakeerickson.com/posts/2013/04/07/how_to_correctly_configure_ubuntu_to_run_lithium_php
Many thanks to Blake Erickson for providing this!