Installing PHP, MySQL, phpmyadmin nginx on Ubuntu Server (part 1)

First step, of course you should install a fresh ubuntu server on your server (both virtual or physical), and then install nginx by typing this command

sudo apt-get install nginx

Ok, once you have finished install nginx, then install PHP, we don’t use standard PHP anymore, but we move on to use PHP-FPM, install it by using this command

sudo apt-get install php5-fpm

Good! You’ve just installed it correctly. After that, you should configure your PHP-FPM configuration by following these steps:

• open /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini
• Find cgi.fix_pathinfo=1 and change the value from 1 to 0
• open /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
• find listen = 127.0.0.1:9000 and change its value to /var/run/php5-fpm.sock
• uncomment listen.owner = www-data and listen.group = www-data
• restart php-fpm: sudo /etc/init.d/php5-fpm restart

Let’s move back to nginx again, and we have to update its configuration.
open /etc/nginx/sites-available/default and change the content to following lines

server {
    listen   80;   
    root /usr/share/nginx/www;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    #change line below with your domain or type localhost
    server_name localhost your-domain.com

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
    }

    error_page 404 /404.html;

    error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
        root /usr/share/nginx/www;
    }

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on the php-fpm socket
    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;       
    }
}   

Create a file called index.php in /usr/share/nginx/www with this following code

<?php
    phpinfo();
?>

Restart your nginx with this command sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart
Try your installation in your browser http://your-ip-or-your-domain/
If you did your installation correctly, you will see this page