Step 1: Install the Nginx Web Server
$ sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install nginx
Enable UFW (Ubuntu Firewall)
$ sudo ufw enable
$ sudo ufw status
$ sudo ufw allow ‘Nginx HTTP’
Step 2: Install MySQL
$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server
Step 3: Install PHP 5.6
Use the following set of command to add PPA for PHP 5.6 in your Ubuntu system and install PHP 5.6.
$ sudo apt-get install python-software-properties $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install -y php5.6
Check Installed PHP Version:
$ php -v PHP 5.6.29-1+deb.sury.org~xenial+1 (cli) Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies
You can install php5.6 modules too for example
sudo apt-get install php5.6-mbstring php5.6-mcrypt php5.6-mysql php5.6-xml
Step 4: Install PHP5.6-FPM
To install PHP-FPM, open terminal and type in these commands. We will configure the details of nginx and php details in the next step:
$ sudo apt-get install php5.6-fpm
We need to make another small change in the php5-fpm configuration.Open up http://www.conf:
sudo nano /etc/php/5.6/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
Find the line, listen = 127.0.0.1:9000, and change the 127.0.0.1:9000 to /run/php/php5.6-fpm.sock
.
listen = /run/php/php5.6-fpm.sock
Save and Exit.
Restart php-fpm:
/etc/init.d/php5.6-fpm restart
Step 5: Configure Nginx to Use the PHP Processor
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
Currently, with the comments removed, the Nginx default server block file looks like this:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
root /var/www/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name _;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php5.6-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}