WSL2 Nginx, PHP, MySQL - Different PHP versions

wsl2_nginx.md

Different PHP Version

Installation:

$ sudo apt-get update -y
$ sudo apt-get install nginx mariadb-server -y
$ sudo service nginx start
$ sudo service mariadb start
$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common -y

PHP:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
$ sudo apt-get update -y
$ sudo apt-get install php7.1 php7.1-fpm php7.4 php7.4-fpm zip unzip -y
$ sudo service php7.1-fpm start && sudo service php7.4-fpm start

Nginx:

$ sudo mkdir /var/www/html/php71
$ sudo mkdir /var/www/html/php74

Index File:

$ sudo nano /var/www/html/php71/index.php

Paste:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Copy and set Correct Permissions:

$ sudo cp /var/www/html/php71/index.php /var/www/html/php74/index.php
$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/php71
$ sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/php74

Nginx Configurations:

$ sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/php71.conf

Paste:

server {
   listen 8071;
   root /var/www/html/php71/;
   index index.php;

   server_name _;

   location / {
       try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
   }

   location ~ \.php$ {
      try_files $uri =404;
      fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
      fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;
      fastcgi_index index.php;
      fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
      include fastcgi_params;
   }
}

For Php 7.4:

$ sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/php74.conf

Paste:

server {
   listen 8074;
   root /var/www/html/php74/;
   index index.php;

   server_name _;

   location / {
       try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
   }

   location ~ \.php$ {
      try_files $uri =404;
      fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
      fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
      fastcgi_index index.php;
      fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
      include fastcgi_params;
   }
}

Load Sites:

$ sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/php71.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
$ sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/php74.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

Restart Services:

$ sudo service nginx restart && sudo service php7.1-fpm restart && sudo service php7.4-fpm restart

Test Sites:

• PHP 7.1
• PHP 7.4

Subfolder Different PHP Version

$ sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

Check Configuration:

server {
        listen 80 default_server;
        listen [::]:80 default_server;

        root /var/www/html;
        index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

        server_name _;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
        }

        #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        # The application which only supports php version 7.1
        #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        # might as well move this: include /var/www/sites.conf
        #
        
        location /old {
                alias /var/www/old;
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;

                location ~ \.php$ {
                        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
                        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
                        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;
                }
        }

        #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        # Default PHP
        #--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        
        location ~ \.php$ {
                include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
        }

        location ~ /\.ht {
                deny all;
        }
}

WSL2 NGINX (DEVELOPMENT)

Nginx config file

server {
    listen 9000;
    listen [::]:9000;
    
    server_name dev.test;
    ...
}

Edit %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and append:

127.0.0.1 test.dev

Should be accessable at http://test.dev:9000

References:

How to install Nginx + php + MySQL on WSL Windows 10 Nginx running in WSL2 (Ubuntu 20.04) does not serve HTML page to Windows 10 host on another port than port 80