Many of the subjects you mention are directly related to writing applications like code coverage testing approaches, SDLC, documentation of code, etc. I agree there are two aspects involved here - learning to program and learning a particular programming language. It doesn't mean you can't learn software engineering if you narrow down the academic focus to current programming languages. Studying arcane programming languages like COBOL doesn't prepare you well to write a business application.

When I was doing computer science graduate course about eight years ago, they taught us Pascal and then COBOL followed by FORTRAN. Lastly they taught us C. But all of them were mere introduction to these programming languages. The most a student could learn from these courses is to know how to use loops and functions in programs. Nobody ever told us what are the differences among these programming languages and why they existed. What to say of teaching students how to write applications? I wish they had taught us C, C++ and python for the undergraduate course.

It wasn't a cow then. Cows don't bite. Correct me if I am wrong.

He didn't lose any contract. ASAIK, he never did any project business. Newspapers wrote whatever came to their mind.

As stated in above comments virtual host is running multiple websites on a single server. Example, mysite1.example.com, mysite2.example.com, example2.com, etc all running on the same server and can even share same IP address. Refer to name virtual hosts in apache httpd documentation.

If you want to run virtual web server on one hardware box you need something like Xen, KVM, QEMU etc.

If you want to use Fedora/CentOS or alike RPM based distros the below link will help.

http://lampcomputing.com/content/how-to-install-lamp

Whatever operating system you use, you can run apache on it. Distro is more of a personal choice.