Nginx is a lightning fast, lightweight web server, a great alternative for apache in terms of speed, scalability. The good news is nginx comes pre-installed in amazon linux. We will see how quickly we can setup wordpress running on top of php, mysql running Nginx server in Amazon linux.
Start Nginx webserver and make sure you open port 80 in your amazon running instance
service nginx start
Now you can check the Nginx test page by typing http://ec2-xx-xx-xx-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com
- Nginx default page on the Amazon Linux AMI. It is located in /usr/share/nginx/html/index.html
- Nginx configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
- Nginx error log /var/log/nginx/error.log
Install PHP for Nginx
sudo yum install php-fpm php-devel php-mysql php-pdo php-pear php-mbstring php-cli php-odbc php-imap php-gd php-xml php-soap
Install MySQL server
sudo yum install mysql-server mysql
You also have create a new user for wordpress or any other CMS. This can be easily done in command line
mysql -u -p CREATE USER 'test'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'test'; CREATE DATABASE wp; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wp.* TO test@localhost;
Configure Nginx
sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
Make the changes, should look like this
location / {
root /var/www/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/share/nginx/html$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
Setup PHP FPM
We now setup php fast cgi for nginx. Uncomment and edit these specific lines look like this
sudo nano /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
listen = /var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock listen.owner = nginx listen.group = nginx listen.mode = 0664 user = nginx group = nginx
Install WordPress
cd /usr/share/nginx/html/ sudo wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz tar zxf latest.tar.gz cd wordpress cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php
Edit wp-config.php and enter the mysql database information
define('DB_NAME', 'wp');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'test');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'test');
Properly configure permissions for the wordpress uploads folder. It should run as www-root or nginx, if not you cannot upload any media files
sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www/html/wordpress/*
All is done now..Fire up!
service php-fpm restart service mysqld start service nginx restart
Point your browser to wordpress and rest is easy!
Useful github guide: https://gist.github.com/sumardi/5559803
