As an experiment this site is now running on my Raspberry Pi.
Assumptions you have setup your Raspberry Pi with Raspbian with a static IP, and allowed port 80 through your firewall to that static IP address.
Please remember to make sure you OS is up to date:
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade
Installing Nginx
The first peace of software you will need to install is Nginx
sudo apt-get install nginx
Now we can start Nginx
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start
You can now test if it’s working by putting in the IP address of your server in a browser to see if it works e.g. http://192.168.0.1
The browser will now display a Page saying “Welcome to nginx”
Install PHP
Use the next command to install PHP
sudo apt-get install php5-fpm
Now we need to make some configuration changes, now we need to make some configuration changes
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
Scroll down the configuration file and uncomment by removing the #
listen 80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
Set the serve name to your server name
server_name www.webwhitenoise.com;
Change the index line to the following
index index.php index.html index.htm;
Uncomment the next section in the configuration file
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
# NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
# # With php5-cgi alone:
# fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
# # With php5-fpm:
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
Now exit from nano and remember to save the changes
Now we need to edit the php.ini configuration file
sudo nano /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini
Find cgi.fix_pathinfo in the file and change it as follows
cgi.fix_pathinfo=0
Now we need to reload PHP and Nginx
sudo /etc/init.d/php5-fpm reload && sudo /etc/init.d/nginx reload
You can now test if PHP is working on Nginx by adding a index.php file tot he root of the server
cd /usr/share/nginx/www
sudo nano index.php
Add the following line to the file
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
If you now refresh the webpage we opened earlier in the browser it shlould display the PHP info page.
Install MySQL server
Now we install MYSQL
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
As a part of this process you will be prompted to enter a password, this password will be the root password for MySQL.
Once this process completes install MySQL Client and MySQL PHP components
sudo apt-get install mysql-client php5-mysql
Now we need to setup a database and user in MySQL
Connect to the MySQL Server using the root user, you will be prompted for the password
mysql -uroot -hlocalhost -p
We now create a database, wordpressdb represents the name of the database
CREATE DATABASE wordpressdb;
Now we create a user for WordPress to use to access the database, wordpressuser represents the user id and password_here a password. Root should not be used
CREATE USER 'wordpressuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password_here';
Now we grant this user access tot he database
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wpdb.* TO 'wordpressuser'@'localhost';
Flush the privileges for the changes to take effect
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Now press CTRL + C to exit MySQL
Now test the username against the database
mysql -uwordpressuser -hlocalhost wordpressdb -p
Now press CTRL + C to exit MySQL
Finished
You now have a working server server with Nginx, PHP and MySQL ready to use.
