These are instructions for installing PHP7, MySQL 5.7 and Nginx 1.10 on Ubuntu 16.04.
Update All The Things
First run:
apt-get update
Install MySQL
apt-get -y install mysql-server
Check version using:
mysql --version
mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.17, for Linux (x86_64) using EditLine wrapper
Install Nginx
apt-get -y install nginx
Check version using:
nginx -v
nginx version: nginx/1.10.0 (Ubuntu)
Install PHP-FPM
apt-get -y install php7.0 php7.0-fpm php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-json php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-xml
mkdir -p /run/php
Check version using:
php -v
PHP 7.0.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 (cli) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.0.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies
Configure Nginx
Change the config in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default to:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
server_name localhost;
set $root_path '/var/www/html';
root $root_path;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_read_timeout 15;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
Restart Services
Do:
service mysql restart
service nginx restart
service php7.0-fpm restart
Test Installation
You should see the PHP information page after running the following:
echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > /var/www/html/index.php
curl http://localhost
Final One-shot script
You can run all the commands in one go. Paste the following in one file and run it:
apt-get update
apt-get -y install mysql-server
apt-get -y install nginx
apt-get -y install php7.0 php7.0-fpm php7.0-mysql php7.0-curl php7.0-json php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-xml
mkdir -p /run/php
echo "
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
server_name localhost;
set \$root_path '/var/www/html';
root \$root_path;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
try_files \$uri \$uri/ /index.php;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files \$uri =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)\$;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO \$fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED \$document_root\$fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME \$document_root\$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_read_timeout 15;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
} " > /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > /var/www/html/index.php
service mysql restart
service nginx restart
service php7.0-fpm restart
curl http://localhost
That’s all, folks!