How to Install Nginx and PHP-FPM via YUM on CentOS 6

Original article: http://www.lifelinux.com/how-to-install-nginx-and-php-fpm-on-centos-6-via-yum/

Before you start installing Nginx and PHP-FPM, you must uninstall any previously installed Apache and PHP on your system. Log in as root and run the following commands:

# yum remove httpd* php*

Add Additional Repositories

    By default, the official CentOS repositories do not include php-fpm, but we can obtain it from the Remi RPM repository, which depends on the EPEL repository. We can add both repositories like this:

# yum install yum-priorities -y# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm# rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm

Sample Output

Retrieving http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpmwarning: /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.00kiDx: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 0608b895: NOKEYPreparing...########################################### [100%]1:epel-release ########################################### [100%]

Install Nginx

Run the following command

# yum install nginx

Sample Output

Dependencies Resolved================================================================================ Package                  Arch      Version                    Repository  Size================================================================================Installing: nginx                    x86_64    0.8.54-1.el6               epel       358 kInstalling for dependencies: GeoIP                    x86_64    1.4.8-1.el6                epel       620 k fontconfig               x86_64    2.8.0-3.el6                base       186 k freetype                 x86_64    2.3.11-6.el6_1.8           updates    358 k gd                       x86_64    2.0.35-10.el6              base       142 k libX11                   x86_64    1.3-2.el6                  base       582 k libX11-common            noarch    1.3-2.el6                  base       188 k libXau                   x86_64    1.0.5-1.el6                base        22 k libXpm                   x86_64    3.5.8-2.el6                base        59 k libjpeg                  x86_64    6b-46.el6                  base       134 k libpng                   x86_64    2:1.2.46-1.el6_1           base       180 k libxcb                   x86_64    1.5-1.el6                  base       100 k libxslt                  x86_64    1.1.26-2.el6               base       450 k perl                     x86_64    4:5.10.1-119.el6_1.1       base        10 M perl-Module-Pluggable    x86_64    1:3.90-119.el6_1.1         base        37 k perl-Pod-Escapes         x86_64    1:1.04-119.el6_1.1         base        30 k perl-Pod-Simple          x86_64    1:3.13-119.el6_1.1         base       209 k perl-libs                x86_64    4:5.10.1-119.el6_1.1       base       575 k perl-version             x86_64    3:0.77-119.el6_1.1         base        49 kTransaction Summary================================================================================Install      19 Package(s)Upgrade       0 Package(s)Total download size: 14 MInstalled size: 47 MIs this ok [y/N]: y

If you want Nginx to start automatically at system boot, run the following command:

# chkconfig --level 345 nginx on

To start Nginx for the first time, run the following command:

# /etc/init.d/nginx start

Sample Output

Starting nginx:                                            [  OK  ]

Install PHP-FPM

Enter the following command:

# yum --enablerepo=remi install php php-fpm

Sample Output

Dependencies Resolved==================================================================================== Package            Arch        Version                          Repository    Size====================================================================================Installing: php                x86_64      5.3.10-2.el6.remi                remi         2.3 M php-fpm            x86_64      5.3.10-2.el6.remi                remi         1.1 MInstalling for dependencies: apr                x86_64      1.3.9-3.el6_1.2                  base         123 k apr-util           x86_64      1.3.9-3.el6_0.1                  base          87 k apr-util-ldap      x86_64      1.3.9-3.el6_0.1                  base          15 k httpd              x86_64      2.2.15-15.el6.centos.1           updates      813 k httpd-tools        x86_64      2.2.15-15.el6.centos.1           updates       70 k libedit            x86_64      2.11-4.20080712cvs.1.el6         base          74 k mailcap            noarch      2.1.31-2.el6                     base          27 k php-cli            x86_64      5.3.10-2.el6.remi                remi         2.2 MTransaction Summary====================================================================================Install      10 Package(s)Upgrade       0 Package(s)Total download size: 6.8 MInstalled size: 21 MIs this ok [y/N]: y

If you want php-fpm to start automatically at system boot, enter the following command:

# chkconfig --level 345 php-fpm on

PHP is installed with only the core modules. You will likely need to install additional modules, such as MySQL, XML, GD, etc. You can enter the following command:

# yum --enablerepo=remi install php-gd php-mysql php-mbstring php-xml php-mcrypt

To start php-fpm for the first time, enter the following command:

# /etc/init.d/php-fpm restart

Sample Output

Starting php-fpm:                                          [ OK ]

Configure PHP-FPM and Nginx to Work Together

# vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

        ...	location / {            root   /usr/share/nginx/html;            index  index.html index.htm index.php;        }        ...	location ~ /.php$ {            root           html;            fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;            fastcgi_index  index.php;            fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;            include        fastcgi_params;        }        ...

# /etc/init.d/nginx reload

# vi /usr/share/nginx/html/info.php

The file content is as follows:

<?phpphpinfo();?>

Visit  http://YOUR-SERVER-IP

Nginx Virtual Host Setup

Configuration Example

IP: 192.168.1.113
Domain: domain.local
Hosted at: /home/www/domain.local

Enter the following command to create a new user named “www”

# useradd www

Create necessary directories

# mkdir -p /home/www/domain.local/public_html# mkdir -p /home/www/domain.local/log# chown -R www.www /home/www/# chmod 755 /home/www/

Create virtual host configuration file

# cd /etc/nginx/conf.d/# cp virtual.conf www.conf

Open the www.conf file with the following command

# vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/www.conf

Add the following configuration

server {        server_name  domain.local;        root /home/www/domain.local/public_html;        access_log /home/www/domain.local/log/domain.local-access.log;        error_log /home/www/domain.local/log/domain.local-error.log;        location / {                index  index.html index.htm index.php;        }        location ~ /.php$ {                include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;                fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;                fastcgi_index index.php;                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;        }}

You can check the configuration file for syntax errors using the following method

# /etc/init.d/nginx configtest

Sample output

the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is okconfiguration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

Now edit the /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf file and change the user running the php-fpm process to “www”, enter

# vi /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf

Find “group of processes”, and edit it to look like the following:

; Unix user/group of processes; Note: The user is mandatory. If the group is not set, the default user's group;       will be used.; RPM: apache Choosed to be able to access some dir as httpduser = www; RPM: Keep a group allowed to write in log dir.group = www

Finally restart nginx

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