How to install nginx, php7.1 and setup a virtual host in Ubuntu

Install nginx, php7.1 and setup a virtual host in ubuntu.md

Install Nginx and add a virtual host

• First, make sure the Ubuntu Repo. is up to date.

sudo apt-get update

• Check if Nginx is install in you machine:

nginx -v

• If the previous command didn't return the Nginx version, then it means Nginx is not installed. Try to install it by following command:

sudo apt-get install nginx

• Goto to this directory

cd /etc/nginx/sites-available

• Copy the default config file and change example to your project name. Make sure the extention is .conf

sudo cp /etc/nginx/sites-available/default /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.conf

Modify the .conf file. Here is an example file

• Now that we have our server block files, we need to enable them. Create the symbolic link from the .conf file to sites-enabled directory. Nginx reads them during startup

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/laravel.test.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

• If you need to check the link, type this comand in terminal:

ls -l /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

• (Optional) Increase server_names_hash in nginx.conf file by uncommenting server_names_hash_bucket_size 64; line. In order to open the config file, tyoe this command:

sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

• Now, add the virtual host to the system by modifying hosts file and adding this line:

127.0.0.1       www.example.test        example.test

System hosts config file is accessible with this command:

sudo nano /etc/hosts

More commands

• Restart nginx

sudo systemctl restart nginx
sudo service nginx restart

• Check the syntax for nginx config files

sudo nginx -t

• Install php 7.1 and common modules in your machine.

• Make sure php is working with Nginx. Install php-fpm

sudo apt-get install php-fpm php-mysql

• Modify the php.ini and enable cgi.fix_pathinfo=0 and set it to ZERO. In order to do this, type this command: (You will find it in line 775)

sudo nano /etc/php/7.1/fpm/php.ini

• Restart the php-fpm

sudo systemctl restart php7.1-fpm

• If you need to change thee ownership of a directory to the current user:

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/example.test

• Change the www direcotry permission for development server

sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www