Learn how to install & configure Nginx, MySQL and PHP on an Ubuntu server.Here are the commands used and run during the video:
Install some basics:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y wget curl vim tmux htop software-properties-common
Nginx
We'll get the latest stable of Nginx:
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:nginx/stable
sudo apt-get update
# Compare versions available
sudo apt-cache show nginx
# Install latest available
sudo apt-get install -y nginx
Check out the default site configured at /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
.
PHP
See available versions, add a repository for version 5.6, and install:
sudo apt-cache show php5
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php5-5.6
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y php5-fpm php5-cli php5-mysql php5-curl php5-mcrypt php5-gd
Explore configuration for PHP in /etc/php5
, taking note of special configuration for PHP-FPM in /etc/php5/fpm
.
Configure Nginx for PHP:
# Edit /etc/nginx/sites-available/default:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
root /var/www/html;
index index.htm index.html index.php;
server_name _;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
}
}
MySQL
Simply install versino 5.6 using:
sudo apt-get install -y mysql-5.6
(There's more overview of configuration in the video, definitely check it out!)