Installing nginx with PHP FPM on FreeBSD 8.x-9.0
Create a new user for the website adduser
in the home directory for the user create a public_html directory. This is where your website files will live. cd ~websiteusername mkdir public_html Change ownership of the directory to the user chown websiteusername public_html
Install PCRE from ports cd /usr/ports/devel/pcre make install clean
Install PHP from ports cd /usr/ports/lang/php5 make install clean Select FPM, CLI, CGI and SUHOSIN on the config screen. cp /usr/local/etc/php.ini-production /usr/local/etc/php.ini for a good place to start
Edit /etc/rc.conf to add php_fpm_enable="YES"
Install MySQL server from ports cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql55-server make install clean normal options should be fine.
Edit /etc/rc.conf to add mysql_enable="YES"
Install nginx from ports cd /usr/ports/www/nginx make install clean select HTTP options you think you might use, including gzip and HTTP_REWRITE no need for email functions or proxy functions. (I select all of the HTTP prefixed modules myself) check out http://nginx.org/en/docs/ for more info on the modules.
Edit /etc/rc.conf to add nginx_enable="YES"
At this point you can fire up mysql and php-fpm to make sure both are working before we go farther into things.
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start /usr/local/etc/rc.d/php-fpm start
nginx needs to be configured before we start it. edit /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
Here is my config file for example
user nobody; worker_processes 1;
error_log /var/log/nginx_error.log; #error_log logs/error.log notice; #error_log logs/error.log info;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
events { worker_connections 1024; }
http { include mime.types; default_type application/octet-stream;
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" ' '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" ' '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
#access_log logs/access.log main;
sendfile on; #tcp_nopush on;
#keepalive_timeout 0; keepalive_timeout 65;
gzip on;
server { listen 80; server_name localhost;
#charset koi8-r;
access_log /var/log/nginx_access.log main;
location / { root /home/websiteusername/public_html; index index.html index.htm; }
#error_page 404 /404.html;
# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html # error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html; location = /50x.html { root /usr/local/www/nginx-dist; }
# proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80 # #location ~ \.php$ { # proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1; #}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000 # location ~ \.php$ { root html; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/websiteusername/public_html$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; }
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root # concurs with nginx's one # location ~ /\.ht { deny all; } }
# another virtual host using mix of IP-, name-, and port-based configuration # #server { # listen 8000; # listen somename:8080; # server_name somename alias another.alias;
# location / { # root html; # index index.html index.htm; # } #}
# HTTPS server # #server { # listen 443; # server_name localhost;
# ssl on; # ssl_certificate cert.pem; # ssl_certificate_key cert.key;
# ssl_session_timeout 5m;
# ssl_protocols SSLv2 SSLv3 TLSv1; # ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5; # ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
# location / { # root html; # index index.html index.htm; # } #}
}
Once you are done editing you can test your config nginx -t
As long as the above test was successful, fire up nginx. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nginx start
Create a basic /home/websiteusername/public_html/index.html file to test with.
Open up a browser and go to http://servername.domain.tld/ to see if you get your index.html file. If not, the log files that are relevant can be found in /var/log/nginx_access.log and /var/log/nginx_error.log.
I would like to thank SecaGuy at SecaServer for his article on nginx at http://blog.secaserver.com/2011/07/freebsd-nginx-php-fastcgi-installation/ which helped me particularly with the configuration file.
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