Hosting Wordpress Sites Using NGINX and FastCGI

add_user.sh

# add a user
adduser {USER}

# add user group
adduser {USER} www-data

# You will be prompted to enter a password

# Ssh in as that user to ensure that in the next steps you are setting permissions correctly
ssh {USER}@yourhost.com

# uncomment and set umask to 002 in ~/.profile

mkdir ~/public
mkdir ~/log

## Log back in as root (or run using sudo)

# Symlink to sites-enabled when ready 
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/{USER} /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/{USER}

# If MySQL is required:

mysql -u root -p

> create user {USER} identified by 'samepassword';
> create database {USER};
> GRANT all on {USER}.* to '{USER}'@'%';
> exit

fastcgi_run_script.sh

#!/bin/bash
BIND=127.0.0.1:9000
USER=www-data
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=15
PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=1000

PHP_CGI=/usr/bin/php-cgi
PHP_CGI_NAME=`basename $PHP_CGI`
PHP_CGI_ARGS="- USER=$USER PATH=/usr/bin PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=$PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=$PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS $PHP_CGI -b $BIND"
RETVAL=0

start() {
      echo -n "Starting PHP FastCGI: "
      start-stop-daemon --quiet --start --background --chuid "$USER" --exec /usr/bin/env -- $PHP_CGI_ARGS
      RETVAL=$?
      echo "$PHP_CGI_NAME."
}
stop() {
      echo -n "Stopping PHP FastCGI: "
      killall -q -w -u $USER $PHP_CGI
      RETVAL=$?
      echo "$PHP_CGI_NAME."
}

case "$1" in
    start)
      start
  ;;
    stop)
      stop
  ;;
    restart)
      stop
      start
  ;;
    *)
      echo "Usage: php-fastcgi {start|stop|restart}"
      exit 1
  ;;
esac
exit $RETVAL

install_applications.rb

# The web server
apt-get install nginx 

# The Database Server
apt-get install mysql-server

# PHP5 and required libraries
apt-get install php5 php5-mysql php5-cgi

# A FTP Server
apt-get install vsftpd

nginx-vhost.sh

server {
	listen   80;
	server_name {DOMAIN};

	access_log  /home/{USER}/log/access.log;
        error_log  /home/{USER}/log/error.log;

	location / {
		root   /home/{USER}/public;
		index  index.php index.html index.htm;
           # this serves static files that exist without running other rewrite tests
          if (-f $request_filename) {
              expires 30d;
              break;
          }

          # this sends all non-existing file or directory requests to index.php
          if (!-e $request_filename) {
              rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
          }

	}

	# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
	#
	location ~ \.php$ {
	 fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
	 fastcgi_index  index.php;
	 fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /home/{USER}/public/$fastcgi_script_name;
	 include fastcgi_params;
	}
}

setup_fastcgi.rb

# Make it Executable
chmod +x /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi

# Configure it to run on startup
update-rc.d php-fastcgi defaults

# Start it up now
service php-fastcgi start