Install Nginx, PHP on Amazon Linux

I’m migrating my blog and a few other stuff I have running to Amazon infrastructure. I needed an Amazon EC2 instance with PHP support and able to connect to a MySQL.

Steps:

1. yum update
2. yum install nginx
3. yum install php70 php70-fpm php70-mysqlnd
4. Edit /etc/nginx/conf.d/virtual.conf

server {
    listen       3000;

    location / {
        root   /var/www/;
        index  index.php index.html index.htm;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        root /var/www/;
        fastcgi_pass   unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        fastcgi_params;
    }
}

1. Edit the following properties of: /etc/php-fpm-7.0.d/www.conf

user = nginx
group = nginx

listen = /var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock

listen.owner = nginx
listen.group = nginx
listen.mode = 0660

1. Create a php file on /var/www/

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

1. Access http://SERVER_IP:3000

You will need your security group for your ec2 instance to have port 3000 opened.

If you want to add them to auto start:

sudo chkconfig nginx on
sudo chkconfig php-fpm on

If you want to restart this services:

sudo service nginx restart
sudo service php-fpm restart

Matheus