Fedora/webserver/nginx
Installing Nginx on Fedora (RPM)[edit | edit source]
This page will explain how I configured nginx for my WordPress sites.
My configuration prior to migrating to nginx was built on two servers as following:
Before | After |
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Installing needed components[edit | edit source]
yum -y install nginx php-fpm
php-fpm[edit | edit source]
We will be using socket to connect to php-fpm, so you will need to change the default configuration to create a socket opposed to TCP.
vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
Around line 12, change listen from 127.0.0.1:9000 to /var/run/php-fpm.socket so it looks like:
listen = /var/run/php-fpm.socket
Then around line 39, change the user and group to nginx
user = nginx group = nginx
Then start it:
chkconfig php-fpm on service php-fpm start
Firewall (IPTables)[edit | edit source]
To open normal web traffic for all network cards add the below to /etc/sysconfig/iptables:
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
Or to restrict connections to a single network card and IP address, add:
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp -i eth1 -s 10.176.228.120 --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
Once done, restart iptables
service iptables restart
Log Rotation[edit | edit source]
/etc/logrotate.d/nginx:
/var/log/nginx/*log { weekly rotate 104 dateext missingok notifempty olddir /var/log/nginx/archive compress sharedscripts postrotate /etc/init.d/nginx reopen_logs endscript }
Installing Nginx on Fedora (Source - SVN)[edit | edit source]
The below will walk you threw installing Nginx from Subversion on a Fedora system. With minor modification, the below instructions should also work for other flavors of Linux/Unix.
To start out with, confirm you have the needed prerequisites installed.
yum -y install gcc libxslt-devel gd-devel GeoIP-devel subversion
After you install the needed software, you can start getting ready to compile the software. I always build source files in /var/src, you may choose a different location if you wish.
cd /var/src svn checkout svn://svn.nginx.org/nginx/trunk nginx cd nginx/ ln auto/configure configure
Next you need to configure Nginx for your setup. The below is a pretty generic/basic setup with the gzip_static module, SSL module & the stub_status module.
./configure --user=nginx --group=nginx --prefix=/usr/local --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf \ --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid \ --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_stub_status_module
Now make and install it.
make && make install
After you have installed Nginx, you need to start it. To do this on Fedora, create the Nginx INIT script into /etc/init.d named as nginx.
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/nginx chkconfig --add nginx chkconfig nginx on adduser nginx groups nginx service nginx start
Upgrading Nginx on Fedora from Source (SVN)[edit | edit source]
cd /var/src/nginx/ rm -rf * svn update ln auto/configure configure ./configure --user=nginx --group=nginx --prefix=/usr/local --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf \ --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid \ --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_stub_status_module make && make install && kill -USR2 $( cat /var/run/nginx.pid ) ps -eaf |grep "nginx: " |grep -v "grep"
kill -WINCH $( cat /var/run/nginx.pid.oldbin )
kill -QUIT $( cat /var/run/nginx.pid.oldbin )