README.md

Install packages

You should have homebrew version 0.9 or newer.

Install nginx

brew install nginx

Install mysql

brew install mysql
unset TMPDIR
mysql_install_db --verbose --user=`whoami` --basedir="$(brew --prefix mysql)" --datadir=/usr/local/var/mysql --tmpdir=/tmp

Install php

brew tap josegonzalez/homebrew-php
brew install php --with-mysql --with-fpm

Tweak config

php-fpm

To run php-fpm in the foreground set deamonize = no in the php-fpm.conf. Should be located in /usr/local/Cellar/php/5.3.10/etc

nginx

Change the root-path in nginx.conf

Folder structure

Procfile
app
  <webapp goes here>
nginx.conf
tmp
  nginx
    logs
      access.log
      error.log

Setup script

Use the setup.rb script to quickly prepare a new project. It creates the configuration files and skeleton folder structure.

You can pass one parameter to the script, the name of the folder to use. Leave it empty to use the current directory.

Run it directly from this gist:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/2585743/d4d1fdb431724675ec2c6894a083c8af3872bb6f/setup.rb)" [optional folder name]

nginx.conf

daemon off;
http {
  include       /usr/local/etc/nginx/mime.types;
  default_type  application/octet-stream;

  server {
    listen 3000;
    server_name localhost;

    root   <absolute path to document root>;
    index  index.php index.html;

    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

    location ~ \.php$
    {
      include /usr/local/etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
      fastcgi_index  index.php;
      fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
    }
  }
}

events {

}

Procfile

web: /usr/local/sbin/nginx -p `pwd`/tmp/nginx/ -c ../../nginx.conf 
fastcgi: /usr/local/sbin/php-fpm
db: /usr/local/bin/mysqld

setup.rb

require 'fileutils'

base = ARGV[0] || '.'
homebrew_path = `brew --prefix`.gsub(/\n/, '')
current_dir = File.expand_path(base)

procfile = <<PROCFILE
web: #{homebrew_path}/sbin/nginx -p #{current_dir}/tmp/nginx/ -c ../../nginx.conf
fastcgi: #{homebrew_path}/sbin/php-fpm
db: #{homebrew_path}/bin/mysqld
PROCFILE

nginx_conf = <<NGINX_CONF
daemon off;
http {
  include       #{homebrew_path}/etc/nginx/mime.types;
  default_type  application/octet-stream;

  server {
    listen 3000;
    server_name localhost;

    root   #{current_dir}/app;
    index  index.php index.html;

    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

    location ~ \.php$
    {
      include #{homebrew_path}/etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
      fastcgi_index  index.php;
      fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
    }
  }
}

events {

}
NGINX_CONF

# Create folder structure
FileUtils.mkdir_p "#{base}/tmp/nginx/logs"
FileUtils.mkdir "#{base}/app"

# Create empty files
FileUtils.touch "#{base}/tmp/nginx/logs/access.log"
FileUtils.touch "#{base}/tmp/nginx/logs/error.log"

# Create config files
File.open("#{base}/Procfile", 'w') {|f| f.write(procfile) }
File.open("#{base}/nginx.conf", 'w') {|f| f.write(nginx_conf) }

# Create test php file
File.open("#{base}/app/index.php", 'w') {|f| f.write("<?php\n  echo '<h1>It works!</h1>';\n") }