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Tutorial installing Nginx + Php5-FPM in FreeBSD 8

This tutorial is running in a FreeBSD vps with IPv6 only from VDS6 with the following :

  • Package Name v128
  • Ram 128MB
  • swap 128MB
  • Disk Space 2GB
  • Bandwidth 100GB
  • 2 IPv6
  • FreeBSD 8
  • 1 CPU Core 500Mhz
  • $ 0.95/month

 
Since the ssh is not configured after first install, we have to change the sshd_config, and reboot the vps. Go to VDSManager – Private Files, and browse to /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Uncomments Port and Listen address, and then reboot the vps.
Next, change the /etc/resolv.conf so the vps can have access to the internet via IPv6, add the Google DNS :

nameserver 2001:4860:4860::8888
nameserver 2001:4860:4860::8844

 
 Installing Nginx

# cd /usr/ports/www/nginx
# make install clean

Enable the following modules :

[X] HTTP_MODULE               Enable HTTP module
[X] HTTP_ADDITION_MODULE      Enable http_addition module
[X] HTTP_CACHE_MODULE         Enable http_cache module
[X] HTTP_DAV_MODULE           Enable http_webdav module
[X] HTTP_FLV_MODULE           Enable http_flv module
[X] HTTP_GEOIP_MODULE         Enable http_geoip module
[X] HTTP_GZIP_STATIC_MODULE   Enable http_gzip_static module
[X] HTTP_IMAGE_FILTER_MODULE  Enable http_image_filter module
[X] HTTP_PERL_MODULE          Enable http_perl module
[X] HTTP_RANDOM_INDEX_MODULE  Enable http_random_index module
[X] HTTP_REALIP_MODULE        Enable http_realip module
[X] HTTP_REWRITE_MODULE       Enable http_rewrite module
[X] HTTP_SECURE_LINK_MODULE   Enable http_secure_link module
[X] HTTP_SSL_MODULE           Enable http_ssl module
[X] HTTP_STATUS_MODULE        Enable http_stub_status module
[X] HTTP_SUB_MODULE           Enable http_sub module
[X] HTTP_XSLT_MODULE          Enable http_xslt module

Enable the Nginx by editing /etc/rc.conf, and add the following :

nginx_enable="YES"

 
Installing another package
Before we configure and start the web server, we need to install PCRE,  libtool, PHP with FPM and PHP extensions. Follow these steps:

cd /usr/ports/devel/pcre
make install clean
cd /usr/ports/devel/libtool
make install clean
cd /usr/ports/lang/php5
make install clean

During the selection module page, select FPM (FastCgi Process Manager).

cd /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions
make install clean

Since PHP-FPM is a service, we need to add this in /etc/rc.conf:

php_fpm_enable="YES"

 
Copying PHP.ini
By default, there is no php.ini specified. So we need to copy the php.ini which has been prepared during port installation.

cp /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini-production /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini

 
Start the PHP-FPM

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/php-fpm start

Now PHP5-FPM is listening at 127.0.0.1:9001, next, prepare the directory for serving the website.
 
Configure the Nginx.conf

# nano /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
---------------------------------------
user  nobody;
worker_processes  1;
error_log  logs/error.log;
pid        logs/nginx.pid;
events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}
http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
    sendfile        on;
    keepalive_timeout  65;
    gzip  on;
    # We define the virtual host here
    server {
        listen       192.168.60.2:80;
        server_name  mydomain.net www.mydomain.net;
        access_log  /home/mydomain/logs/access.log  main;
        location / {
            root   /home/mydomain/public_html;
            index  index.html index.htm index.php;
        }
    # Let nginx know how to handle PHP using fastcgi
        location ~ \.php$ {
            root           html;
            fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
            fastcgi_index  index.php;
            fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /home/mydomain/public_html$fastcgi_script_name;
            include        fastcgi_params;
        }
        location ~ /\.ht {
            deny  all;
        }
    }
}

 
Now we have our webserver ready to launch :

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/nginx start
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/php-fpm restart
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/nginx reload

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