Setting Up PHP FastCGI and phpMyAdmin with nginx

July 27, 2010

This article shows the steps how we set up a PHP FastCGI interface on nginx and install phpMyAdmin on mysql.domain.com.

Install php5-cgi via aptitude on Ubuntu server:

sudo aptitude install php5-cgi
sudo nano /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi

Add the following lines to ‘/etc/init.d/php-fastcgi’ to bind FastCGI on localhost at port 9000:

#!/bin/bash
BIND=127.0.0.1:9000
USER=www-data
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=15
PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=1000

PHP_CGI=/usr/bin/php-cgi
PHP_CGI_NAME=`basename $PHP_CGI`
PHP_CGI_ARGS="- USER=$USER PATH=/usr/bin PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=$PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=$PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS $PHP_CGI -b $BIND"
RETVAL=0

start() {
      echo -n "Starting PHP FastCGI: "
      start-stop-daemon --quiet --start --background --chuid "$USER" --exec /usr/bin/env -- $PHP_CGI_ARGS
      RETVAL=$?
      echo "$PHP_CGI_NAME."
}
stop() {
      echo -n "Stopping PHP FastCGI: "
      killall -q -w -u $USER $PHP_CGI
      RETVAL=$?
      echo "$PHP_CGI_NAME."
}

case "$1" in
    start)
      start
  ;;
    stop)
      stop
  ;;
    restart)
      stop
      start
  ;;
    *)
      echo "Usage: php-fastcgi {start|stop|restart}"
      exit 1
  ;;
esac
exit $RETVAL

Make the file executable

sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi
sudo update-rc.d php-fastcgi defaults
sudo /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi start

Install phpmyadmin via aptitude on our Ubuntu server:

sudo aptitude install phpmyadmin
nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/domain.com

Add an entries to enable ‘mysql.domain.com’ by adding following lines into ‘/etc/nginx/zones/db.domain.com’:

mysql IN A 202.181.234.41

Add the following lines in existing ‘domain.com’ nginx config file:

server {
        listen          80;
        server_name     mysql.domain.com;

        access_log      /var/log/nginx/mysql.domain.com.access_log;
        error_log       /var/log/nginx/mysql.domain.com.error_log warn;

        root            /usr/share/phpmyadmin;
        index           index.php;
        fastcgi_index   index.php;

        location ~ \.php$ {
                fastcgi_pass    127.0.0.1:9000;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/share/phpmyadmin$fastcgi_script_name;
                include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
       }
}
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/domain.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/domain.com

Set mysql root password if you haven’t done so:

mysql -u root
SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('yourpassword');
mysql -u root -p  <-- If you have set a root password before

Great, our phpMyAdmin is here: ‘http://mysql.domain.com/’.

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