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New update: Nginx 0.8.54 + PHP 5.3.5 has been posted

I’m doing this on my CentOS 5.5 64bit with 256MB RAM OpenVZ VPS, another / my way to install Nginx with the appropriate modul for hosting WordPress site or blog. Nginx version is still 0.8.53 because i’m using Epel Repository.

Download Epel Repository
32bit

rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

64bit

rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

Update YUM

yum update

Install Nginx and required packages

yum install -y nginx patch libtool libmcrypt-devel libxml2-devel make automake gcc gcc-c++ sudo flex bison wget zlib-devel openssl-devel pcre pcre-devel pcre-devel gd-devel bzip2* libc-client-devel.x86_64

Start Nginx

chkconfig --add nginx
chkconfig nginx on
/etc/init.d/nginx start

Optional: Before starting Nginx, you have to stop and / or remove httpd

service httpd stop
yum remove -y httpd

Install MySQL

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

configure MySQL

mysql_secure_installation

Enter current password ==> just press enter since this is the fresh installation
Set root password: Y ==> input your new MySQL root password twice
Remove anonymous user: Y
Disallow root login remotely: n
Remove test database and access to it: Y
Reload privilege tables now: Y

Download pre-configured module for PHP 5.3.5

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.13.tar.gz
tar -zxvf autoconf-2.13.tar.gz
cd autoconf-2.13
./configure
make && make install

Configure and install PHP 5.3.5

cd /root
wget http://us.php.net/get/php-5.3.5.tar.gz/from/us.php.net/mirror
tar -zxvf php-5.3.5.tar.gz
cd php-5.3.5
./buildconf --force
./configure --enable-fpm --enable-cli --with-mcrypt --with-zlib --enable-mbstring --with-openssl --with-mysql --with-mysqli --with-mysql-sock --with-gd --with-zlib --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib64 --enable-gd-native-ttf --without-sqlite --disable-pdo --disable-reflection --with-libdir=lib64 --with-xpm-dir=/usr/lib64 --enable-gd-jis-conv --with-freetype-dir=/usr/include/freetype2 --with-ttf=/usr/include/freetype2 --enable-shared –-enable-shmop –-enable-track-vars –-enable-libxml --enable-bcmath --enable-calendar --enable-exif --enable-ftp --enable-gd-native-ttf --enable-magic-quotes --enable-soap --enable-sockets --enable-zip --with-curlwrappers --with-gettext --with-imap --with-imap-ssl=/usr/lib64 --with-kerberos --enable-inline-optimization --with-bz2 --enable-wddx --with-mhash --enable-sysvsem --enable-sysvshm --enable-mbregex
make
make install

Accelerate your PHP with XCache PHP opcode cacher
**if you prefer eAccelerator please refer here

cd /root
wget http://xcache.lighttpd.net/pub/Releases/1.3.1/xcache-1.3.1.tar.gz
tar -zxvf xcache-1.3.1.tar.gz
cd xcache-1.3.1
phpize
./configure --enable-xcache
make
su
make install

Create php.ini and add XCache configuration

nano /usr/local/lib/php.ini

include the following lines to your php.ini

magic_quotes_gpc=0
[xcache-common] zend_extension = /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/xcache.so
[xcache] xcache.shm_scheme = "mmap"
xcache.size = 64M

Check your PHP Version with XCache installed

php -v

PHP 5.3.5 (cli) (built: Feb 10 2011 12:17:46)
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
with XCache v1.3.1, Copyright (c) 2005-2010, by mOo

PHP-FPM section

mv /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.conf.default /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.conf
nano /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.conf

uncomment the following lines

pm.start_servers = 20
pm.min_spare_servers = 5
pm.max_spare_servers = 35
pm.max_request = 500

for PHP-FPM setting, you can refer to PHP-FPM Wiki

add PHP-FPM to init directory and start it

ln -s /usr/local/sbin/php-fpm /etc/rc.d/init.d/php-fpm
chmod +x /etc/rc.d/init.d/php-fpm
chkconfig --add php-fpm
chkconfig php-fpm on
/etc/init.d/php-fpm start

Configure your domain root **here i prefer ‘/home’ directory for my domain root

mkdir -p /home/domain/public_html
mkdir -p /home/domain/logs

note: for Nginx domain virtual host configuration, you can edit / add to nginx.conf directly by editing it, or use separate vhost configuration for each domain

i’m using separate vhost configuration

mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-available
mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

edit nginx.conf

nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

add the following lines right after the “include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf” line

# Load virtual host configuration files
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

create domain vhost configuration

nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/mydomain.com

add this configuration but don’t forget to edit by referring your domain root

symlink your vhost to enabled-sites

cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mydomain
service nginx restart

Create php info page

nano /home/domain/public_html/info.php

input the following line and test in your browser! (mydomain.com/info.php)

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Additional Package: IonCube Loader
32bit

wget http://downloads2.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86.tar.gz

64bit

wget http://downloads2.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz

extract IonCube package

tar -zxvf ioncube_loaders_lin_x86-64.tar.gz

move loader-wizard.php to your domain directory, and follow the wizard instructions until finish! (mydomain.com/loader-wizard.php)

mv ioncube/loader-wizard.php /home/domain/public_html

**after you finish installing IonCube Loader by wizard, you can skip here

or

run the following command

mv ioncube/ioncube_loader_lin_5.3.so /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/

edit your php.ini

nano /usr/local/lib/php.ini

add the following line before any other zend extension (the line below is one line, not two)

zend_extension = /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/ioncube_loader_lin_5.3.so

Reboot

reboot

Check your PHP Version with IonCube Loader and XCache installed

php -v

PHP 5.3.5 (cli) (built: Feb 10 2011 16:54:48)
Copyright (c) 1997-2010 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
with the ionCube PHP Loader v4.0.6, Copyright (c) 2002-2011, by ionCube Ltd.
, and
with XCache v1.3.1, Copyright (c) 2005-2010, by mOo

Thanks to
– Almighty God for my spirit
– Uncle G for plenty of knowledge
– A few helpful site and countless spam site that i cannot write here all