User:Saul/nginx

LEMP Stack

Install

Nginx

sudo apt-get install nginx

PHP

sudo apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-fpm

MySQL

sudo apt-get install mysql-server php7.0-mysql

Configure

Nginx

To use php change:

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
	# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
	index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html index.php;

	# pass PHP scripts to FastCGI server
        #
        location ~ \.php$ {
                include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;

                # With php-fpm (or other unix sockets):
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
        #       # With php-cgi (or other tcp sockets):
        #       fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        }

MySQL

Configure MySQL

sudo mysql_secure_installation # set a unique password, remove anonymous user accounts, disable remote root login, and remove the test database

Wordpress

MySQL

Create the database for wordpress:

mysql -u root -p # OR:
sudo mysql --user=root --password="ROOTPASSWORD" # Enter the MYSQL database
	create database example; # create the database example.com (can be anything) for wordpress
	create user 'USER' identified by 'PASSWORD'; # create a user by the name of USER with the password PASSWORD
	grant all on example.com.* to 'USER' identified by 'PASSWORD'; # grant a user by the name of USER the permissions to modify the database with the password PASSWORD
	quit; # exit mysql