Installing PHP 5.3, Nginx And PHP-fpm On Ubuntu/Debian

In this tutorial I will show you how to install it on your Ubuntu server. This tutorial also applies to Debian, though. There is only a very small difference.

Ready? Let's begin shall we.

Step 0 - Preliminary Notes

In order to complete this tutorial, I assume you have installed a base system of Debian or Ubuntu. How this can be done, can be read in different tutorials. This tutorial only focusses on getting nginx+php running without much hassle.

Step 1 - Nginx

Installing nginx is the first step we have to do. This can be easily done by downloading it from the repository.

sudo apt-get install nginx

The default vhost has to be changed in order to work properly.

sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

A nice starting point for your config is:

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