Installing Nginx With PHP 5.3 And PHP-FPM On Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04)

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In this post I will explain how to install Nginx with PHP 5.3.2 and PHP-FPM on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04-amd64). The Lucid release is a Long-Term Support (LTS), meaning that it will be supported for three years on the desktop and for five years with the server version.

Step 0 - Preliminary Notes

In order to complete this tutorial you should have a a base system of Ubuntu 10.04.

Step 1 - Install Nginx

apt-get install nginx

Step 2 - Install all required dependencies for this installation

apt-get install autoconf2.13 libssl-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libjpeg62-dev libpng12-dev libmcrypt-dev libmysql++-dev libfreetype6-dev libt1-dev libc-client-dev libbz2-dev mysql-client libevent-dev libxml2-dev

Step 3 - Download PHP

cd /usr/local/src

wget http://se2.php.net/get/php-5.3.2.tar.gz/from/se.php.net/mirror

tar xzf php-5.3.2.tar.gz

Step 4 - Download / Configure PHP-FPM

wget http://github.com/dreamcat4/php-fpm/tarball/0.6-5.3.1

tar xvf dreamcat4-php-fpm-0.6-5.3.0-0-gdd5ebd0.tar.gz

dreamcat4-php-fpm-3bb2b9b/generate-fpm-patch

cd php-5.3.2

patch -p1 < ../fpm.patch

./buildconf --force

mkdir fpm-build && cd fpm-build

Step 5 - Configure PHP

Now to configure the commands we should use with PHP, you can add more stuff if you want to. If you are missing something, you can always ask me and I can help you with that also:

../configure --with-fpm --with-libevent=shared --with-mcrypt --enable-mbstring --with-openssl --with-mysql --with-mysql-sock --with-gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-sqlite=shared --with-pdo-mysql --with-libxml-dir=/usr/lib --with-mysqli=/usr/bin/mysql_config --with-curl --enable-zip --with-bz2 --enable-soap=shared --with-imap=shared --with-imap-ssl --enable-sockets --with-zlib --enable-exif --enable-ftp --with-iconv --with-gettext --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-t1lib=/usr --with-freetype-dir=/usr --with-kerberos --prefix=/usr/local/php --with-fpm-user=www-data --with-fpm-group=www-data

If everything goes well here (which it should), you can run the following command:

make && make install

Step 6 - Configure Nginx

Now you need to download the default vhost configuration, and you can do it here:

wget http://kjette.se/blog/wp-content/downloads/default.tar.gz

tar xzf default.tar.gz

mv default /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

Now we want to reload Nginx by running following command:

/etc/init.d/nginx reload

You are now finished. If you have any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to contact me.