How to Install Nginx with PHP5 on Fedora 12

[OSzilla]

Hi everybody,

I want to use Nginx that is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. I want to install Nginx on a Fedora 12 server with PHP5 support and MySQL . Please suggest. Thanks in advance.

[jesse]

First you need to install MySQL 5 by this command

yum install mysql mysql-server

Then make the system startup links for MySQL and start the MySQL server by command :

chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on
/etc/init.d/mysqld start

Now you need to check that networking is enabled or not by this command:

netstat -tap | grep mysql

and restart your MySQL server. Best of luck.

[SalVatore]

Actually the Nginx is available as a package for Fedora 12 which you can install by this command:

yum install nginx

Then you need to make the system startup links for nginx and start it with this command:

chkconfig --levels 235 nginx on
/etc/init.d/nginx start

Then type in your web server's IP address otherwise hostname into a browser. Best of luck.

[jesse]

You can make PHP5 work in nginx through FastCGI. There is no separate FastCGI daemon package for Fedora, so you should use the FastCGI package of lighttpd and install it jointly with php-cli and some PHP5 modules like php-mysql which you require if you want to use MySQL from your PHP scripts. After that open /etc/php.ini and insert the line cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1 right towards the end of the file:

vi /etc/php.ini

The lighttpd-fastcgi package arrives with the executable /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi which you can use to create FastCGI processes.

[SalVatore]

You can modify the default vhost as below scripts on PHP 5
server {
listen 80;
server_name _;



location / {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
}

error_page 404 /404.html;
location = /404.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}

error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
root html;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/share/nginx/html$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}


location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}

[SalVatore]

The important part for PHP 5 is the location ~ \.php$ {} stanza. Uncomment it to allow it. Modify the root line to the web site's document root for example root /usr/share/nginx/html;. Please confirm that you change the fastcgi_param line to fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/share/nginx/html $ fastcgi_script_name ; because or else the PHP interpreter won't locate the PHP script that you describe in your browser