Ngnix conf with php on Ubuntu 20/22

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Install on Ubuntu 20/22/24

Cleanups

⚠️ If you have already installed apache, you must uninstall it

sudo systemctl stop apache2.service
sudo apt remove apache2
sudo apt remove "libapache2-mod-php*"

Install Nginx

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/nginx -y
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx -y
sudo systemctl enable nginx

Configure Nginx for PHP

Hope you have already installed the php-cli, lets install the glue now

sudo apt install php8.3-fpm
sudo systemctl start php8.3-fpm

Ngnix service commands

• Check for syntax errors

sudo nginx -t

• Reload after updating the configurations

sudo systemctl reload nginx

Tweak php.ini

You can tweak php.ini at this location

/etc/php/8.3/fpm/php.ini

Links

• https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-nginx
• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tools/nginx
• https://www.serverion.com/nginx-config/
• https://www.cloudbooklet.com/install-phpmyadmin-on-ubuntu-20-04-with-nginx/

laravel-project.conf

# /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/laravel.conf

server {
    listen 80;

    # listen 443 ssl;
    # ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/certs/laravel.test.pem;
    # ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/certs/laravel.test-key.pem;

    server_name laravel.test *.laravel.test;

    root /home/ankur/projects/laravel-app/public;

    add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";

    index index.php;

    charset utf-8;

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

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

    error_page 404 /index.php;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
        deny all;
    }
}

nginx.conf

# /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
include /etc/nginx/modules-enabled/*.conf;

events {
	worker_connections 768;
	# multi_accept on;
}

http {

	##
	# Basic Settings
	##

	sendfile on;
	tcp_nopush on;
	tcp_nodelay on;
	keepalive_timeout 65;
	types_hash_max_size 2048;
	server_tokens off;
	client_max_body_size 100M;

	# server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
	# server_name_in_redirect off;

	include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
	default_type application/octet-stream;

	##
	# SSL Settings
	##

	ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3; # Dropping SSLv3, ref: POODLE
	ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

	##
	# Logging Settings
	##

	#access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
	error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

	##
	# Gzip Settings
	##

	gzip on;
	gzip_static on;

	##
	# Virtual Host Configs
	##

	include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
	include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}