Cheatsheet (Install nginx server + PHP 7 on AWS EC2 Linux)

Install PHP 7 on EC2 micro Instance running Amazon Linux Distribution

Install linux update, followed by GCC and Make

sudo yum -y update
sudo yum install -y gcc make

to see what's new (optional)

sudo yum install -y yum-plugin-changelog
sudo yum update --changelog

Install PHP

List of PHP packages [https://webtatic.com/packages/php70/]

Install additional commonly used php packages

sudo rpm -Uvh https://mirror.webtatic.com/yum/el6/latest.rpm
sudo yum install --enablerepo=webtatic-testing php70w php70w-devel php70w-fpm php70w-mysqlnd php70w-mbstring php70w-pdo php70w-mcrypt php70w-xml php70w-mbcrypt php70w-pear php70w-gd php70w-curl php70w-opcache php70w-pecl-apcu php70w-imap php70w-pecl-redis

install nginx

sudo yum install -y nginx 

Config

Php-fpm

/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf(Add or uncomment by removing ; in the start)

[global]
emergency_restart_threshold = 10
emergency_restart_interval = 1m
process_control_timeout = 10s

[www]
listen = /var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock
listen.owner = nginx
listen.group = nginx
listen.mode = 0664
user = nginx
group = nginx

pm.max_children = 20
pm.start_servers = 5
pm.min_spare_servers = 5
pm.max_spare_servers = 20
pm.max_requests = 200

php_admin_value[memory_limit] = 64M

### run at startup, and start them up
sudo chkconfig nginx on
sudo chkconfig php-fpm on
sudo service nginx start
sudo service php-fpm start

reload nginx config & restart

sudo nginx -s reload && sudo service nginx restart && sudo service php-fpm restart

to check php version

php -v

Database & Drivers

install mysql

sudo yum -y install mysql-server sudo service mysqld start

install mongodb driver for php7

sudo yum install -y openssl-devel 
sudo pecl install mongodb

Note:

• check file exists ====> /usr/lib64/php/modules/mongodb.so
• add extension=mongodb.so to php.ini

install composer

cd ~
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
chmod +x composer.phar
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Errors

502 Bad Gateway NGINX or 502 Service Temporarily Overloaded

Check the owner permission for php-fpm sock (/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock) sudo chown -R nginx /var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock

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