Step 1:
- Installing Nginx web/proxy server
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/$nginx
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install nginx
- Start the service
$ sudo service nginx start
- Then test the installation by opening web browser and type your ip address or localhost to the url text box. You should see a welcoming page.
Step 2:
- Installing PHP
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install php5-fpm php5.cli
- Edit ini file
$ sudo nano /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini
- Change the cgi.fix_pathinfo=1 to cgi.fix_pathinfo=0
- Edit config file
$ sudo gedit /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
- Uncomment highlighted lines below
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80 ipv6only=on default_server;
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
# Make site accessible from http://localhost/
server_name localhost;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
# Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
# include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
}
location /doc/ {
alias /usr/share/doc/;
autoindex on;
allow 127.0.0.1;
allow ::1;
deny all;
}
# Only for nginx-naxsi used with nginx-naxsi-ui : process denied requests
#location /RequestDenied {
# proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
#}
#error_page 404 /404.html;
# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
#
#error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
#location = /50x.html {
# root /usr/share/nginx/html;
#}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
#
location ~ \.php$ {
# fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
# # NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
#
# # With php5-cgi alone:
# fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
# # With php5-fpm:
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
- Start PHP service
$ sudo service php5-fpm start
- Restart Nginx service
$ sudo service nginx restart
- Test your installation by creating info.php file with source code below into your webserver root directory
<php?
phpinfo();
?>
Step 3: Installing xdebug (optional)
$ sudo apt-get install php5-xdebug
- Get Loaded Configuration File (from your browser by opening info.php you've created earlier) and add the text below to php.ini
zend_extension=/usr/lib/php5/20100525/xdebug.so
xdebug.remote_enable=on
- Restart PHP and Nginx service
Important notes:
- To completely uninstall Nginx (including settings)
$ sudo apt-get purge nginx nginx-common nginx-full
- If you're getting the error below when you start Nginx service
$ nginx: [emerg] bind() to [::]:80 failed (98: Address already in use)
- Edit /etc/nginx/sites-available/default file by changing the text
from
listen [::]:80 default_server;
to
listen [::]:80
ipv6only=on default_server;
