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Nginx and PHP-FastCGI on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
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The nginx web server is a fast, lightweight server designed to efficiently handle the needs of both low and high traffic websites. Although commonly used to serve static content, it’s quite capable of handling dynamic pages as well. This guide will help you get nginx up and running with PHP and FastCGI on your Ubuntu 9.10 Linode.
It is assumed that you’ve already followed the steps outlined in our Setting Up and Securing a Compute Instance . These steps should be performed via a root login to your Linode over SSH.
Basic System Configuration
Issue the following commands to set your system hostname, substituting a unique value for “hostname.” :
echo "hostname" > /etc/hostname
hostname -F /etc/hostname
Edit your /etc/hosts
file to resemble the following, substituting your Linode’s public IP address for 12.34.56.78, your hostname for “hostname,” and your primary domain name for “example.com.” :
- File: /etc/hosts
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127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 12.34.56.78 hostname.example.com hostname
Install Required Packages
Make sure you have the “universe” repositories enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list
. Your file should resemble the following:
- File: /etc/apt/sources.list
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## main & restricted repositories deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic main restricted deb http://security.ubuntuu.com/ubuntu karmic-security main restricted deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security main restricted ## universe repositories deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic universe deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic universe deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates universe deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ karmic-updates universe deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security universe deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu karmic-security universe
Issue the following commands to update your system and install the nginx web server, PHP, and compiler tools:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install nginx php5-cli php5-cgi spawn-fcgi
Various additional dependency packages will be installed along with the ones we requested. Once the installation process finishes, you may wish to make sure nginx is running by browsing to your Linode’s IP address (found on the Networking tab in the Linode Cloud Manager ). You should get the default NGINX page.
Configure Your Site
In this guide, we’ll be using the domain “example.com” as our example site. You should substitute your own domain name in the configuration steps that follow. First, we’ll need to create directories to hold our content and log files:
mkdir -p /srv/www/www.example.com/public_html
mkdir /srv/www/www.example.com/logs
chown -R www-data:www-data /srv/www/www.example.com
Next, define your site’s virtual host file:
- File: /etc/nginx/sites-available/www.example.com
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server { server_name www.example.com example.com; access_log /srv/www/example.com/www/logs/access.log; error_log /srv/www/example.com/www/logs/error.log; root /srv/www/example.com/www/public_html; 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 /srv/www/example.com/www/public_html$fastcgi_script_name; } }
Important security note: If you’re planning to run applications that support file uploads (images, for example), the above configuration may expose you to a security risk by allowing arbitrary code execution. The short explanation for this behavior is that a properly crafted URI which ends in “.php”, in combination with a malicious image file that actually contains valid PHP, can result in the image being processed as PHP. For more information on the specifics of this behavior, you may wish to review the information provided on Neal Poole’s blog .
To mitigate this issue, you may wish to modify your configuration to include a try_files
directive. Please note that this fix requires nginx and the php-fcgi workers to reside on the same server.
- File: /etc/nginx/sites-available/www.example.com
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location ~ \.php$ { try_files $uri =404; include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /srv/www/example.com/www/public_html$fastcgi_script_name; }
Additionally, it’s a good idea to secure any upload directories your applications may use. The following configuration excerpt demonstrates securing an “/images” directory.
- File: /etc/nginx/sites-available/www.example.com
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location ~ \.php$ { include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params; if ($uri !~ "^/images/") { fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; } fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /srv/www/example.com/www/public_html$fastcgi_script_name; }
After reviewing your configuration for potential security issues, issue the following commands to enable the site:
cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/www.example.com
/etc/init.d/nginx restart
You may wish to create a test HTML page under /srv/www/www.example.com/public_html/
and view it in your browser to verify that nginx is properly serving your site (PHP will not work yet). Please note that this will require an entry in DNS
pointing your domain name to your Linode’s IP address.
Install spawn-fcgi
Visit the spawn-fcgi project page and locate the download link to the latest version. Issue the following commands, substituting your link for the one shown below if a newer version is available.
cd /opt
wget http://www.lighttpd.net/download/spawn-fcgi-1.6.3.tar.gz
tar -xf spawn*
cd spawn*
./configure
make
cp src/spawn-fcgi /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi
Issue the following command sequence to download scripts to control spawn-fcgi and php-fastcgi, set privileges, make the init script run at startup, and launch it for the first time:
cd /opt
wget -O php-fastcgi-deb.sh http://www.linode.com/docs/assets/644-php-fastcgi-deb.sh
mv php-fastcgi-deb.sh /usr/bin/php-fastcgi
chmod +x /usr/bin/php-fastcgi
wget -O php-fastcgi-init-deb.sh http://www.linode.com/docs/assets/643-php-fastcgi-init-deb.sh
mv php-fastcgi-init-deb.sh /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi
chmod +x /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi
update-rc.d php-fastcgi defaults
/etc/init.d/php-fastcgi start
Test PHP with FastCGI
Create a file called “test.php” in your site’s public_html
directory with the following contents:
- File: /srv/www/www.example.com/public\_html/test.php
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<?php echo phpinfo(); ?>
When you visit http://www.example.com/test.php
in your browser, the standard “PHP info” output is shown. Congratulations, you’ve configured the nginx web server to use PHP-FastCGI for dynamic content!
More Information
You may wish to consult the following resources for additional information on this topic. While these are provided in the hope that they will be useful, please note that we cannot vouch for the accuracy or timeliness of externally hosted materials.
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