PHP via apache on the server with nginx and django

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PHP via apache on the server with nginx and django

October 27, 2009 | linux, other, python, tools
author: Karol Zielinski | comments: 5 | views: 2801
Tags: administration, apache, django, nginx, php, server

I already described how to configure WordPress on nginx + lighttpd + FastCGI + php (via spawn-fcgi), as well as how to configure php-fpm on server with nginx. Now… I will try to describe alternative way to serve php scripts on the machine with python apps (django) and nginx installed – via installed apache.

Ok, we have apache already installed, so we don’t need to install anything else (like php-fpm or spawn-fcgi) to serve php scripts. We can use installed apache. I prefer to use php-fpm instead of this (because of its performance), however… sometimes it’s good to know that we can “go this way”, too.

So…

I assume that you have apache and nginx already installed.

Now, we need to install all necessary packages (such as php5 for apache):

apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

if you need something more – install it right now.

configure apache

Next, we need to create VirtualHost in our apache.

vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/site.com

and add there:


<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
    ServerName www.site.com
    ServerAlias site.com

    DocumentRoot /opt/php-projects/site.com
    <Directory /opt/php-projects/site.com/>
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    LogLevel warn
    ErrorLog  /var/log/site-apache_error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/site-apache_access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

now, we need to add this VirtualHost to our apache configuration.

ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/site.com /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/

configure nginx

vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/apache-site.com

and add there:

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

server {
    listen YOUR_IP:80;
    server_name www.site.com;

    access_log /var/log/site-nginx-access.log;
    error_log /var/log/site-nginx-error.log;

    location / {
        proxy_pass    http://127.0.0.1:80/;
        include       /etc/nginx/proxy.conf;
    }
}

how should /etc/nginx/proxy.conf looks like – I desribed earlier.

now add it to nginx:

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

run everything

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
/etc/init.d/nginx restart

Check ‘site.com’ in your web browser. You should see your php script served by apache.

The end.

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Comments (5)

barszcz
October 27, 2009, 4:31 pm

I don’t get it. You are running both Apache and nginx on the same port (80)? I think it shouldn’t work.

Karol Zielinski
October 28, 2009, 2:21 am

It works.

You just need to have:
NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80
Listen 127.0.0.1:80
in ‘/etc/apache2/ports.conf’.

and ’127.0.0.1:80′ in your ‘VirtualHost’ like above.

after that in ‘/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/site.com’ you need to have ‘listen YOUR_IP:80′ instead of ‘listen 80′.

barszcz
October 29, 2009, 5:44 am

Ah OK, I understand it now. So nginx is listening on eth0 device and Apache on loopback device.

Karol Zielinski
October 29, 2009, 5:54 am

That’s right.

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