Installing NginX

If you are installing Nginx on MacOSX, i recommend using homebrew. Once you have home brew running, install nginx via:

brew install nginx

Once you have it installed, there are a few notes of where you will need to get your nginx running. You nginx config file will be in:

/usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

if you are install it on Linux either debian or ubuntu. Just do this in terminal:

sudo apt-get install nginx

Setting up Php for NginX

Once you have installed Nginx, you may want to get Php5.4 running. Using homebrew, you can install php-fpm (Php fast process manager) that is a process listening on your (default) port 9000. You can now set nginx to forward any php script requests to this process by adding the following: PHP-FPM Configuration in the nginx.conf

location ~ .php$ {
    #root  html;
    fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
    fastcgi_index  index.php;
    #fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /scripts$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    include  fastcgi_params;
}

You might find that the config may have this section of code commented out already. Just uncomment and restart your nginx server.

sudo nginx -s reload 

Something interesting is to check your hosts file (if you are using mac), it will be the file at /etc/hosts. To edit, type this command:

sudo nano /etc/hosts 

Some configuration parameters which you will find useful.

index index.php index.htm index.html;  #Can be placed on the Http level if FPM is activated.

root /Users/[your user id]/Sites/; #This will point to your sites folder on mac. Note [user id], use yours! This can be placed in the Server level