Getting started

Add necessary repositories:

CentOS 5.x i386:

sudo rpm -ivh http://mirror.yandex.ru/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm

sudo rpm -ivh http://mirror.yandex.ru/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm

sudo rpm -ivh http://mirror.yandex.ru/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm

sudo rpm -ivh http://mirror.yandex.ru/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm

Create?/etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo?file and add:

[nginx]
name=nginx repo
baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/centos/$releasever/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

Installing Nginx, PHP 5.3.10 and PHP-FPM

To install Nginx, PHP 5.3.10 and PHP-FPM run:

yum install nginx php php-fpm php-common

Install some PHP modules: PEAR (php-pear), PDO (php-pdo), MySQL (php-mysql), Memcache (php-pecl-memcache), Memcached (php-pecl-memcached), GD (php-gd), XML (php-xml), MBString (php-mbstring), MCrypt (php-mcrypt)

yum --enablerepo=remi install php-pecl-apc php-cli php-pear php-pdo php-mysql php-pecl-mongo php-sqlite php-pecl-memcache php-pecl-memcached php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-xml

Enable Nginx and PHP-FPM. You can do it this way:

/etc/init.d/nginx start
/etc/init.d/php-fpm start

or this way:

service nginx start
service php-fpm start

To start Nginx on boot:

chkconfig --add nginx
chkconfig --levels 235 nginx on

To start PHP-FPM on boot:

chkconfig --add php-fpm
chkconfig --levels 235 php-fpm on

Configuring Nginx

Creating folders for our website and logs:

mkdir -p /home/web/www/howtounix.info/public_html
mkdir /home/web/www/howtounix.info/logs
chown -R nginx:nginx /home/web/www/howtounix.info

Create folders for virtual hosts:

mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-available
mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

Add to?/etc/nginx/nginx.conf?file after "include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf":

include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

Add virtual host. In?/etc/nginx/sites-available/?directory create the file named as your website. In our case it's howtounix.info, add:

server {
    server_name howtounix.info;
    access_log /home/web/www/howtounix.info/logs/access.log;
    error_log /home/web/www/howtounix.info/logs/error.log;
    root /home/web/www/howtounix.info/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 /home/web/www/howtounix.info/public_html$fastcgi_script_name;
    }
}

Create a symlink to the virtual host and restart Nginx:

cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/howtounix.info

service nginx restart

Add the virtual host to?/etc/host?file:

127.0.0.1               localhost howtounix.info

Check on Nginx and PHP-FPM. Create?index.php?file in?/home/web/www/howtounix.info/public_html/?directory and add:

<?php 
    phpinfo();
?>

Navigate your website in a browser to check how it works.