A general rule is that the "most recent versions" of anything are probably not all that much different from the old versions, at least not for the basics. I've worked with LAMP type setups for quite a while now, and I can't say I've ever had a case when a new version had some massive problem with the old config. And even in those cases, a quick search on the updated way to do what I wanted to do always worked.
The tutorials are just general setups anyways,
http://www.onlamp.com/ is a good place to start, and just Google if something has changed (which I HIGHLY doubt for what you probably want to do).