########## Install NGINX ##############
# Install software-properties-common package to give us add-apt-repository package
sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common
# Install latest nginx version from community maintained ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable
# Update packages after adding ppa
sudo apt-get update
# Install nginx
sudo apt-get install -y nginx
# Check status
sudo service nginx
# Start nginx if it is not already running
sudo service nginx start
# At this point you should have NGINX up and running, open http://localhost on your
# browser and you should see a welcome page from NGINX
######### Install PHP7.2 and PHP7.2-FPM ################
# check what is the latest PHP version supplied by UBUNTU
sudo apt-cache show php
# You should get something like below where 'Version' would tell us the latest version available in my case is 7.0
# Package: php
# Architecture: all
# Version: 1:7.0+35ubuntu6.1
# Priority: optional
# Section: php
# Source: php-defaults (35ubuntu6.1)
# Origin: Ubuntu
# Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
# Original-Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers
# Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
# Installed-Size: 11
# Depends: php7.0
# Filename: pool/main/p/php-defaults/php_7.0+35ubuntu6.1_all.deb
# Size: 2862
# MD5sum: c5db88de62d1dcb9679e9ae328d7c94a
# SHA1: 49d3f1d1850ac867fedf6fbc5635c33227dfde53
# SHA256: 0b1ccf22b958163669e677d6f660888eec7951d6eda3ae0f49a8e3409773cd87
# Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (default)
# Description-md5: b955c03ceec2872c327e77278c943d6a
# Phased-Update-Percentage: 90
# Supported: 5y
# Add Repository which gives us the latest php version 7.2
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
# Lets now check what is the latest PHP version available now after the repository is added
sudo apt-cache show php
# You should now get something like below and notice the latest version is changed i.e Version: 1:7.2+60+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
# Package: php
# Source: php-defaults (60+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1)
# Priority: optional
# Section: php
# Installed-Size: 12
# Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers
# Architecture: all
# Version: 1:7.2+60+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
# Depends: php7.2
# Filename: pool/main/p/php-defaults/php_7.2+60+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1_all.deb
# Size: 5654
# MD5sum: 1089c40cb9763d667b1ba2bfb0b6b2c4
# SHA1: d34c619a14854708f43ae432daf5fe5e73737072
# SHA256: 6b2b24f7232f980818a688f66fd3f9759ac9d1eb0466dee30faa5b2f4c2b36df
# Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (default)
# Description-md5: 2ccdfdb6b598dc9bdf5572917b808dcb
# Lets now install php7.2 and some important modules which we will need.
sudo apt-get install php7.2-cli php7.2-fpm php7.2-curl php7.2-gd php7.2-mysql php7.2-mbstring zip unzip
# Some modules require you to authenticate installation and prompt you for some information such as:
# Please select the geographic area in which you live. Subsequent configuration questions will narrow this down by presenting a list
# of cities, representing the time zones in which they are located.
# 1. Africa 3. Antarctica 5. Arctic 7. Atlantic 9. Indian 11. SystemV 13. Etc
# 2. America 4. Australia 6. Asia 8. Europe 10. Pacific 12. US
# Geographic area: 8
# Please select the city or region corresponding to your time zone.
# 1. Amsterdam 9. Brussels 17. Guernsey 25. Lisbon 33. Monaco 41. Rome 49. Stockholm 57. Vienna
# 2. Andorra 10. Bucharest 18. Helsinki 26. Ljubljana 34. Moscow 42. Samara 50. Tallinn 58. Vilnius
# 3. Astrakhan 11. Budapest 19. Isle_of_Man 27. London 35. Nicosia 43. San_Marino 51. Tirane 59. Volgograd
# 4. Athens 12. Busingen 20. Istanbul 28. Luxembourg 36. Oslo 44. Sarajevo 52. Tiraspol 60. Warsaw
# 5. Belfast 13. Chisinau 21. Jersey 29. Madrid 37. Paris 45. Saratov 53. Ulyanovsk 61. Zagreb
# 6. Belgrade 14. Copenhagen 22. Kaliningrad 30. Malta 38. Podgorica 46. Simferopol 54. Uzhgorod 62. Zaporozhye
# 7. Berlin 15. Dublin 23. Kiev 31. Mariehamn 39. Prague 47. Skopje 55. Vaduz 63. Zurich
# 8. Bratislava 16. Gibraltar 24. Kirov 32. Minsk 40. Riga 48. Sofia 56. Vatican
# Time zone: 27
# Once done all basic modules will be installed now, lets check the version now
php -v
# PHP 7.2.2-3+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 (cli) (built: Feb 6 2018 16:11:23) ( NTS )
# Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
# Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
# with Zend OPcache v7.2.2-3+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies
# Lets also check if the PHP7.2-FPM is running, if not start it
sudo service php7.2-fpm status
sudo service php7.2-fpm start # (if the service isn't running already)
# Now we need to configure the Gateway so that PHP-FPM uses the UNIX socket for executing PHP files.
# For this we need to check where is the PHP7.2-fpm service running from and where are their configurations stored
sudo ps aux | grep php # (this will list php process)
# You will see the output something like below depending on how many processes are running
# root 13122 0.0 0.0 412040 14752 ? Ss 12:17 0:00 php-fpm: master process (/etc/php/7.2/fpm/php-fpm.conf)
# www-data 13123 0.0 0.0 412040 8424 ? S 12:17 0:00 php-fpm: pool www
# www-data 13124 0.0 0.0 412040 8424 ? S 12:17 0:00 php-fpm: pool www
# root 13126 0.0 0.0 11288 868 pts/1 S+ 12:17 0:00 grep --color=auto php
# You will see the php-fpm master process is its location as /etc/php/7.2/fpm/php-fpm.conf. We now need to check the socket details
# from the PHP7.2-fpm by view this file.
vim /etc/php/7.2/fpm/php-fpm.conf
# You will see at the end of the file something like 'include=/etc/php/7.2/fpm/pool.d/*.conf' which means this process manager is using configurations from
# the pool.d directory. When viewing the /etc/php/7.2/fpm/pool.d/www.conf you will see that the PHP7.2-fpm (process manager) is
# listening to the socket at 'listen = /run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock'
# Copy the socket location i.e. /run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock and we will use this socket to tell nginx to use this socket
vim /etc/nginx/site-available/default
# You will need to tell NGINX to process the index.php files as well so replace the following line
# index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
# to
# index index.html index.htm index.php;
# Also you will see something like the following block for 'location'
#location ~ \.php$ {
# include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
#
# # With php-fpm (or other unix sockets):
# fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
# # With php-cgi (or other tcp sockets):
# fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
#}
# Make changes so to the above block so you have the following one:
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
#
# # With php-fpm (or other unix sockets):
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
# # With php-cgi (or other tcp sockets):
# fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}
# Note we have uncommented the location, and fastcgi_pass lines and also pasted the correct socket that
# is used by our php7.2-fpm (process manager)
# lets now restart both nginx and php7.2-fpm
sudo service nginx reload
sudo service php7.2-fpm restart
# Now lets create a index.php file within the document root i.e. root /var/www/html;
touch /var/www/html/index.php
# and put phpinfo() and save it.
# now open http://localhost and you should see the screen with all php informaiton