PHP Hands-On @ Hackerspace 22 March 2012

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Login to AWS Management Console.

Start a Debian (x86) micro instance.

Access your instance via SSH.

Edit sources:
nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Copy:
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze all
deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org squeeze all

Exit, then:
wget http://www.dotdeb.org/dotdeb.gpg
cat dotdeb.gpg | sudo apt-key add -

Update apt sources:
apt-get update

Install packages:
apt-get install nginx mysql-server php5-fpm php5-mysql php5-gd php5-curl git

Get ThinkUp straight from the source:
git clone https://github.com/ginatrapani/ThinkUp /usr/share/thinkup

Login to MySQL:
mysql –u root –p

Create the Database:
CREATE DATABASE thinkup;

Grant connection privilege:
GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO thinkup@localhost  IDENTIFIED BY ‘thinkuppassword’; 

Grant database privilege:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON thinkup.* to thinkup@localhost ; 

Give it a spin:
mysql –u thinkup –p‘thinkuppassword’ thinkup

Create a new site config:
touch /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/thinkupnano
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/thinkup

Add some configurations:
server {
	listen   80;
	root /usr/share/thinkup;
	index index.php;
	server_name your-hostname;
	location ~ ^/(.+\.php)$ {
		try_files $uri =404;
		fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
		fastcgi_index index.php;
		fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
		include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
	}
	location ~ /\.ht {
		deny all;
	}
}