PHP-FPM and Nginx configuration on linux

Here I will explain how to install php 5.5 under debian based system and configure apache and nginx webservers to get php support.

mkdir /opt/source/

cd /opt/source/

Download the latest php package from the below link,

wget http://ar2.php.net/distributions/php-5.5.7.tar.gz

Now install the dependencies,

apt-get install libexpat1-dev libssl-dev libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev libt1-dev libfreetype6-dev fontconfig libxpm-dev libxml2-dev libfontconfig1-dev

Download and install curl package from this link,

wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.34.0.tar.gz

tar -zxvf curl-7.34.0.tar.gz
cd curl-7.34.0

./configure
make
make install

Now install php,

tar -zxvf php-5.5.7.tar.gz
cd php-5.5.7

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-apxs2=/usr/local/bin/apxs --with-config-file-path=/etc --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl/ --with-pear --with-zlib=/usr --enable-bcmath --enable-ftp --with-gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-png-dir=/usr --with-gettext --with-mysql=/usr/local --with-mysql-sock=/tmp/mysql.sock --sysconfdir=/etc --with-curl=/usr/local/ --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-freetype-dir=/usr --with-t1lib=/usr --enable-soap --enable-mbstring --with-mysqli=/usr/local/bin/mysql_config --with-pdo-mysql=/usr/local/bin/mysql_config -enable-fpm --with-fpm-user=apache --with-fpm-group=apache

make
make install

verify php

~# php -v
PHP 5.5.7 (cli) (built: Dec 24 2013 00:32:28)

Copy the configuration file,

cp -vf /opt/source/php-5.5.7/php.ini-production /etc/php.ini

~# php --ini
Configuration File (php.ini) Path: /etc
Loaded Configuration File:         /etc/php.ini
Scan for additional .ini files in: (none)
Additional .ini files parsed:      (none)


For apache to get php support, The following dso module should be loaded in apache configuration file,

LoadModule php5_module        /usr/local/modules/libphp5.so

Edit httpd.conf to add this line,

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

apachectl restart

Check by pointing your url to info.php,

vim info.php

<?php
phpinfo();
?>


For nginx to run php scripts,

Here we are using php-fpm support, for that php should be installed with fpm (Fast Process Manager) support.

cp /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.conf.default /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.conf

vim /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.conf

user = apache
group = apache
pm = dynamic
pm.max_children = 50
pm.start_servers = 10
pm.min_spare_servers = 5
pm.max_spare_servers = 35
listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock (This socket is used by nginx for php support)


Now start and enable socket listening in startup script,

cd /opt/source/php-5.5.7/sapi/fpm/

cp init.d.php-fpm /etc/init.d/php-fpm

chmod +x /etc/init.d/php-fpm

update-rc.d -f php-fpm defaults

/etc/init.d/php-fpm start

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Nginx should be configured as follows,

vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

server {

        server_name test.com www.test.com;
        listen 80;
        access_log /var/www/logs/nginx/test.log;

        #include /etc/nginx/localserve.conf;
        root /var/www/test.com/;
        index index.html;


location ~ \.php$ {
                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
                if (!-f $document_root$fastcgi_script_name) {
                        return 404;
                }

                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                include fastcgi.conf;
}
}


Restart nginx,

/etc/init.d/nginx restart

Check by pointing your url to info.php,

vim info.php

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Thanks for reading,

Cheers/-