NGINX and PHP-FPM setup on AMAZON-EC2 for heavy lifting

NGINX on EC2

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Install PHP 5.4.x
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yum install \
php54.x86_64 \
php54-bcmath.x86_64 \
php54-cli.x86_64 \
php54-common.x86_64 \
php54-dba.x86_64 \
php54-devel.x86_64 \
php54-fpm.x86_64 \
php54-gd.x86_64 \
php54-intl.x86_64 \
php54-mbstring.x86_64 \
php54-mcrypt.x86_64 \
php54-mysql.x86_64 \
php54-pdo.x86_64 \
php54-pecl-apc.x86_64 \
php54-process.x86_64 \
php54-xml.x86_64
 
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Install Nginx
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yum install nginx.x86_64
 
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Nginx configuration (/etc/nginx/nginx.conf)
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worker_processes  4;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections  32768;
    multi_accept on;
    use epoll;
}

http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log;

    server_tokens off;
    sendfile        on;
    tcp_nopush     on;
    tcp_nodelay        on;
    keepalive_timeout  60;

    gzip  on;
    gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";

    server {
        listen 80;
        server_name _;
        root /your/local/web/app/root/;
        index index.php index.htm index.html;

	try_files $uri $uri/ $uri/index.php /index.php;
        
        location ~ .php$ {
            fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
            fastcgi_index  index.php;
            fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME /your/local/web/app/root/$fastcgi_script_name;
            fastcgi_param  ENVIRONMENT production;
            fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
            fastcgi_buffers 256 16k;
            fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;
            fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
            include fastcgi_params;
        }

        location / {
            rewrite ^ /index.php last; # alike mod_rewrite, redirect uri to index.php
        }

    }

}

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Adjust PHP FPM configuration (/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf)
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listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
listen.allowed_clients = 127.0.0.1
user = nginx 
group = nginx 
pm = static
pm.max_children = 64

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Linux sysctl tunning (/etc/sysctl.conf)
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net.core.rmem_max = 16777216
net.core.wmem_max = 16777216
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 16777216
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 16384 16777216
net.core.somaxconn = 256000
net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 512000
net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65535
net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse = 1
net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control = cubic
nte.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 256000

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Linux limits tunning (/etc/security/limits.conf)
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root            hard    nofile  40000
root            soft    nofile  40000
nginx           hard    nofile  40000
nginx           soft    nofile  40000