My plan is to have one server for my python and php applications. I already wrote about configuring nginx + apache for django applications. As well as configuring WordPress on nginx + lighttpd + FastCGI + php (via spawn-fcgi). Today I will to present how to serve my php applications via php-fpm.

Let’s go to work…

I will use latest version of PHP – 5.2.11.

I assume that you have nginx installed and configured.

Install and configure php-fpm

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://pl2.php.net/get/php-5.2.11.tar.gz/from/pl.php.net/mirror
tar zxvf php-5.2.11.tar.gz
wget http://php-fpm.org/downloads/php-5.2.11-fpm-0.5.13.diff.gz
gzip -cd php-5.2.11-fpm-0.5.13.diff.gz | patch -d php-5.2.11 -p1
cd php-5.2.11
./configure --enable-fastcgi --enable-fpm --with-mcrypt --with-zlib --enable-mbstring --with-openssl --with-mysql --with-mysql-sock --with-gd --without-sqlite --disable-pdo --disable-reflection
make all install
strip /usr/local/bin/php-cgi

now change user and group of your php-fpm processess

/usr/local/etc/php-fpm.conf

and change lines 63 and 66 to www-data ( and ).

all php-fpm patches are here

configure site in nginx

cd /etc/nginx/sites-available/
vim my-php-site.com

and add there:

server {
        listen OUR_IP:80;
        server_name www.my-php-site.com;
        rewrite ^(.*) http://my-php-site.com permanent;
}

server {
    listen OUR_IP:80;
    server_name my-php-site.com;
    error_log   /var/log/nginx/my-php-site-nginx.error.log;
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/my-php-site-nginx.access.log;

    allow all;

    location / {
        root   /opt/php-projects/my-php-site.com;
        index  index.php index.html index.htm;

        # this serves static files that exist without running other rewrite tests
        if (-f $request_filename) {
            expires 30d;
            break;
        }

        # this sends all non-existing file or directory requests to index.php
        if (!-e $request_filename) {
            rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
        }
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /opt/php-projects/my-php-site.com$fastcgi_script_name;
    }
}

how should /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params looks like I described earlier.

now add this site to nginx’s site-enabled:

ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/my-php-site.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

and at least:

php-fpm start
/etc/init.d/nginx restart

Everything should be fine.
Check it in your web browser, as well as by…

ps -aux

Good luck!

More informations:

• yawn.it
• php-fpm.org

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