A good workflow for creating websites and deploying them ?

I currently have a portable apache, mysql and php server zip that I extract for each website that I work on, and when I want to upload the files i just do it over ftp to the server.

Is there any sort of program that would automate the process of getting started with a new project? Like I could just click a button, it would create+run its own 'sandboxed' webserver , and then through options or something it could automatically copy a basic smarty (templating engine) setup or somehow manage packages so that I could always be on the latest version of jQuery, html5boilerplate, etc

I know things like ansible exist for linux which make it easier to get things set up on multiple servers.. but I was wondering if there was some sort of smaller scale for the average developer?

Am I stuck to just copying and pasting files ?