GIT – A step by step tutorial on installing and configuring PHP-FPM, Nginx, & MySQL on an Amazon EC2 instance running Amazon Linux AMI. The procedure has been tested on Amazon Linux AMI, but should also apply in general to Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS distributions. A brief introduction to FastCGI, PHP-FPM, and Nginx was posted in the article Understanding PHP, PHP-FPM and Nginx. Should you be interested in simply installing Apache, PHP, APC, and MySQL on Amazon or CentOS Linux, please follow the tutorial here.

1. Install Linux updates, set time zones, followed by GCC and Make

sudo yum -y update
sudo ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Indianapolis \
      /etc/localtime
sudo yum install -y gcc make

 

2. Install Nginx and PHP-FPM

sudo yum install -y nginx php-fpm

 

3. Install PHP extensions

sudo yum install -y php-devel php-mysql php-pdo \
      php-pear php-mbstring php-cli php-odbc \
      php-imap php-gd php-xml php-soap

 

4. Install PHP-APC

sudo yum install -y php-pecl-apc

sudo yum install -y pcre-devel

 

5. Install MySQL

sudo yum -y install mysql-server mysql

 

6. Nginx Configuration

sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

If you want the location of your web root in the default Amazon Linux AMI directory (/var/www/html):

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;
  }

If you want the location of your web root in the default Nginx directory (/usr/share/nginx/html):

location / {
    root   /usr/share/nginx/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;
  }

 

7. PHP-FPM Configuration

sudo nano /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf

[...]
;listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
listen = /var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock
;listen.owner = nobody
listen.owner = nginx
;listen.group = nobody
listen.group = nginx
;listen.mode = 0666
listen.mode = 0664

user = nginx
group = nginx
[...]

 

8. Auto Start Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MySQL in EC2 Amazon Linux

sudo chkconfig nginx on
sudo chkconfig mysqld on
sudo chkconfig php-fpm on

 

9. Auto Start Nginx, PHP-FPM, and MySQL in EC2 Amazon Linux

sudo service php-fpm start
sudo service nginx start

If everything went well, you should see the following in the root web address: