PHP5.6 and NGINX: Install PHP56-FPM, Nginx & MySQL on EC2 with Amazon Linux AMI

gistfile1.txt

# Install linux update, followed by GCC and Make
sudo yum -y update
sudo yum install -y gcc make

# Install Nginx and php56-FPM
sudo yum install -y nginx php56-fpm

# Install php56 extensions
sudo yum install -y php56-devel php56-mysql php56-pdo php56-pear php56-mbstring php56-cli php56-odbc php56-imap php56-gd php56-xml php56-soap

#Install php mysql for pdo
sudo yum install php56-mysqlnd


# Install php56-APC
sudo yum install -y php56-pecl-apc
sudo yum install -y pcre-devel

# Install MySQL
sudo yum -y install mysql-server mysql

# Nginx Configuration
sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

# php56-FPM Configuration
sudo nano /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf


# Autostart Nginx, php56-FPM and MySQL
sudo chkconfig nginx on
sudo chkconfig mysqld on
sudo chkconfig php-fpm on

nginx.default.conf

server{
    listen 80;

    root   /var/www/html/medix-clinic/public;
    index  index.php index.html index.htm;

    location / {
	#if ($http_x_forwarded_proto != 'https') {
        #    rewrite ^ https://$host$request_uri? permanent;
        #}

        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

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

php-fpm.www.conf

[...]
user = nginx
group = nginx

;listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
listen = /var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock
;listen.owner = nobody
listen.owner = nginx
;listen.group = nobody
listen.group = nginx
;listen.mode = 0666
listen.mode = 0664


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