Install PHP7.2 NGINX and PHP7.2-FPM on Ubuntu 16.04

Instructions.sh

########## Install NGINX ##############

# Install software-properties-common package to give us add-apt-repository package
sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common

# Install latest nginx version from community maintained ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable

# Update packages after adding ppa
sudo apt-get update

# Install nginx
sudo apt-get install -y nginx

# Check status
sudo service nginx status

# Start nginx if it is not already running
sudo service nginx start

# At this point you should have NGINX up and running, open http://localhost on your 
# browser and you should see a welcome page from NGINX

######### Install PHP7.2 and PHP7.2-FPM ################

# check what is the latest PHP version supplied by UBUNTU
sudo apt-cache show php

# You should get something like below where 'Version' would tell us the latest version available in my case is 7.0

# Package: php
# Architecture: all
# Version: 1:7.0+35ubuntu6.1
# Priority: optional
# Section: php
# Source: php-defaults (35ubuntu6.1)
# Origin: Ubuntu
# Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
# Original-Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers <pkg-php-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
# Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
# Installed-Size: 11
# Depends: php7.0
# Filename: pool/main/p/php-defaults/php_7.0+35ubuntu6.1_all.deb
# Size: 2862
# MD5sum: c5db88de62d1dcb9679e9ae328d7c94a
# SHA1: 49d3f1d1850ac867fedf6fbc5635c33227dfde53
# SHA256: 0b1ccf22b958163669e677d6f660888eec7951d6eda3ae0f49a8e3409773cd87
# Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (default)
# Description-md5: b955c03ceec2872c327e77278c943d6a
# Phased-Update-Percentage: 90
# Supported: 5y


# Add Repository which gives us the latest php version 7.2
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

# Update packages after adding ppa
sudo apt update

# Lets now check what is the latest PHP version available now after the repository is added
sudo apt-cache show php

# You should now get something like below and notice the latest version is changed i.e Version: 1:7.2+60+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1

# Package: php
# Source: php-defaults (60+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1)
# Priority: optional
# Section: php
# Installed-Size: 12
# Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers <pkg-php-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
# Architecture: all
# Version: 1:7.2+60+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
# Depends: php7.2
# Filename: pool/main/p/php-defaults/php_7.2+60+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1_all.deb
# Size: 5654
# MD5sum: 1089c40cb9763d667b1ba2bfb0b6b2c4
# SHA1: d34c619a14854708f43ae432daf5fe5e73737072
# SHA256: 6b2b24f7232f980818a688f66fd3f9759ac9d1eb0466dee30faa5b2f4c2b36df
# Description: server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (default)
# Description-md5: 2ccdfdb6b598dc9bdf5572917b808dcb

# Lets now install php7.2 and some important modules which we will need.

sudo apt-get install php7.2-cli php7.2-fpm php7.2-curl php7.2-gd php7.2-mysql php7.2-mbstring zip unzip

# Some modules require you to authenticate installation and prompt you for some information such as:

# Please select the geographic area in which you live. Subsequent configuration questions will narrow this down by presenting a list
# of cities, representing the time zones in which they are located.

#  1. Africa   3. Antarctica  5. Arctic  7. Atlantic  9. Indian    11. SystemV  13. Etc
#  2. America  4. Australia   6. Asia    8. Europe    10. Pacific  12. US


# Geographic area: 8

# Please select the city or region corresponding to your time zone.

#  1. Amsterdam   9. Brussels     17. Guernsey     25. Lisbon      33. Monaco     41. Rome        49. Stockholm  57. Vienna
#  2. Andorra     10. Bucharest   18. Helsinki     26. Ljubljana   34. Moscow     42. Samara      50. Tallinn    58. Vilnius
#  3. Astrakhan   11. Budapest    19. Isle_of_Man  27. London      35. Nicosia    43. San_Marino  51. Tirane     59. Volgograd
#  4. Athens      12. Busingen    20. Istanbul     28. Luxembourg  36. Oslo       44. Sarajevo    52. Tiraspol   60. Warsaw
#  5. Belfast     13. Chisinau    21. Jersey       29. Madrid      37. Paris      45. Saratov     53. Ulyanovsk  61. Zagreb
#  6. Belgrade    14. Copenhagen  22. Kaliningrad  30. Malta       38. Podgorica  46. Simferopol  54. Uzhgorod   62. Zaporozhye
#  7. Berlin      15. Dublin      23. Kiev         31. Mariehamn   39. Prague     47. Skopje      55. Vaduz      63. Zurich
#  8. Bratislava  16. Gibraltar   24. Kirov        32. Minsk       40. Riga       48. Sofia       56. Vatican

# Time zone: 27

# Once done all basic modules will be installed now, lets check the version now

php -v

# PHP 7.2.2-3+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 (cli) (built: Feb  6 2018 16:11:23) ( NTS )
# Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
# Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
#    with Zend OPcache v7.2.2-3+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies


# Lets also check if the PHP7.2-FPM is running, if not start it

sudo service php7.2-fpm status

sudo service php7.2-fpm start  # (if the service isn't running already)

# Now we need to configure the Gateway so that PHP-FPM uses the UNIX socket for executing PHP files.
# For this we need to check where is the PHP7.2-fpm service running from and where are their configurations stored

sudo ps aux | grep php # (this will list php process)

# You will see the output something like below depending on how many processes are running

# root     13122  0.0  0.0 412040 14752 ?        Ss   12:17   0:00 php-fpm: master process (/etc/php/7.2/fpm/php-fpm.conf)
# www-data 13123  0.0  0.0 412040  8424 ?        S    12:17   0:00 php-fpm: pool www
# www-data 13124  0.0  0.0 412040  8424 ?        S    12:17   0:00 php-fpm: pool www
# root     13126  0.0  0.0  11288   868 pts/1    S+   12:17   0:00 grep --color=auto php

# You will see the php-fpm master process is its location as /etc/php/7.2/fpm/php-fpm.conf. We now need to check the socket details
# from the PHP7.2-fpm by view this file.

vim /etc/php/7.2/fpm/php-fpm.conf

# You will see at the end of the file something like 'include=/etc/php/7.2/fpm/pool.d/*.conf' which means this process manager is using configurations from
# the pool.d directory. When viewing the /etc/php/7.2/fpm/pool.d/www.conf you will see that the PHP7.2-fpm (process manager) is 
# listening to the socket at 'listen = /run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock'
# Copy the socket location i.e. /run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock and we will use this socket to tell nginx to use this socket

vim /etc/nginx/site-available/default

# You will need to tell NGINX to process the index.php files as well so replace the following line

# index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
# to
# index index.html index.htm index.php;

# Also you will see something like the following block for 'location'

#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;
#}

# Make changes so to the above block so you have the following one:

location ~ \.php$ {
       include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
#
#       # With php-fpm (or other unix sockets):
       fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
#       # With php-cgi (or other tcp sockets):
#       fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}

# Note we have uncommented the location, and fastcgi_pass lines and also pasted the correct socket that
# is used by our php7.2-fpm (process manager)


# lets now restart both nginx and php7.2-fpm

sudo service nginx reload
sudo service php7.2-fpm restart


# Now lets create a index.php file within the document root i.e. root /var/www/html;

touch /var/www/html/index.php

# and put phpinfo() and save it.


# now open http://localhost and you should see the screen with all php informaiton

Thanks for this snippet. After running sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php command, I had to run sudo apt-get update to show the cache.

I am using all the same version, default install for phpmyadmin, except to changes in the sockets in nginx default files. Still no go. The page just keeps reloading until it stops with a blank page. Be grateful if someone offers a solution.

Thank you.

Check status

sudo service nginx
should be
sudo service nginx status

Had to run sudo apt-get install python-software-properties before, to install it on an AWS EC2 instance.

works! thanks!

wget https://cdn.proviscript.sh/components/ubuntu_16.04/php-fpm.sh
./php-fpm.sh

https://github.com/Proviscript/proviscript

Cool. You can add php-pgsql to the php modules to be installed as it's used quite often.

Thanks

Thanks! This note helps a lot.

Thanks a lot

I am using all the same version, default install for phpmyadmin, except to changes in the sockets in nginx default files. Still no go. The page just keeps reloading until it stops with a blank page. Be grateful if someone offers a solution.

Same issue here. I'm using WSL.

It's what I searching for days,... finally I found this.
I successed install nginx and php7.2 on my raspbian jessie.
thanks for the instruction, very detailed.

Great, thanks!

I am using all the same version, default install for phpmyadmin, except to changes in the sockets in nginx default files. Still no go. The page just keeps reloading until it stops with a blank page. Be grateful if someone offers a solution.

Same issue here. I'm using WSL.

http {
...
fastcgi_buffering off;
...
}

success

Thanks, is the order of index important for executing the order? I just wrote "index index.php index.html" cause I want to execute .php first, if it exists in the folder and if it's not .html

I got stuck after line 56, because I had to run apt-get update after adding the new php source to see 7.2 in the list.

Very useful, thank you

great help!

At L146, its "sites-available" and not "site-available".

Thanks Buddy, It helped me a lot.

thank so much

this help I was able to make it work, thanks.

This is my config laravel file in sites-enabled
server {
listen 80;
#listen [::]:80 ipv6only=on default_server;
root /var/www/html/MyTestProject/public;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name _;

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;        
}


location ~ \.php$ {
     try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
     fastcgi_split_path_info  ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
     fastcgi_index            index.php;
     fastcgi_pass             unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
     include                  fastcgi_params;
     fastcgi_param   PATH_INFO       $fastcgi_path_info;
     fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}

}

This is super useful. Big thanks.

This is super useful. Big thanks.

Glad it was useful 👍

good job

I've spent the last two hours searching the web for this solution...thank you SO much for taking the time to write this!!

Thank you! Really helped!

Thanks you!