Compiling PHP (with Php-fpm) For Nginx – Part 2

In the part 1 on compiling your own nginx + php-frm we’ve focus on nginx part of stack. In this part we will be adding the php-fpm daemon. Php-fpm is the way to go if you want to run php inside nginx. So let’s get started.

Compiling Php (with php-fpm)

Download latest stable version of PHP from http://php.net/downloads.php

	wget http://ca.php.net/get/php-5.4.32.tar.gz/from/this/mirror -O php-5.4.32.tar.gz
 

Extract the source and go into the source directory.

	tar -xzf php-5.4.32.tar.gz
	cd php-5.4.32
 

Next I like to create a create a script called configure.sh which can be reused to recompile with updates later on. Note that you might have to change the location of –with-libdir=lib/x86_64-linux-gnu to something else depending on your version of linux.

#!/bin/bash
########
# Php-fpm Configure Script
########
./configure \
        --enable-fpm \
        --enable-pdo \
        --with-pdo-mysql \
        --enable-sockets \
        --enable-exif \
        --enable-soap \
        --enable-ftp \
        --enable-wddx \
        --enable-pcntl \
        --enable-soap \
        --enable-bcmath \
        --enable-mbstring \
        --enable-dba \
        --enable-gd-native-ttf \
        --enable-zip \
        --enable-calendar \
        --with-mysql \
        --with-mysqli \
        --with-pdo-sqlite \
        --with-iconv \
        --with-zlib \
        --with-bz2 \
        --with-gettext \
        --with-xmlrpc \
        --with-openssl \
        --with-mhash \
        --with-mcrypt \
        --with-xsl \
        --with-curl \
        --with-pcre-regex \
        --with-gd \
        --with-freetype-dir=/usr \
        --with-jpeg-dir=/usr \
        --with-png-dir=/usr \
        --with-ldap \
        --with-pear \
        --with-fpm-user=www-data \
        --with-fpm-group=www-data \
        --with-config-file-path=/etc/php/ \
        --with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php/conf.d/ \
        --with-libdir=lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

Before compiling we make sure we have the needed dependencies.

	sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf libtool libxml2 libxml2-dev openssl libcurl4-openssl-dev  \
	    libbz2-1.0 libbz2-dev libjpeg-dev libpng12-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev \
	    libldap-2.4-2 libldap2-dev libmcrypt4 libmcrypt-dev libmysqlclient-dev \
	    libxslt1.1 libxslt1-dev libxt-dev
 

We are now ready to configure and compile.

	chmod +x ./configure.sh
	./configure.sh

	make
	sudo make install

Nginx is now installed you can test by issuing the following command

	/usr/local/bin/php -v 
	# Outputs: 
	# PHP 5.4.4 (cli) (built: Jun 29 2012 17:00:35)
	# Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group
	# Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologiesnginx version: nginx/1.2.1

Lastly we copy the provided init.d scripts and php.ini

	sudo mkdir -p /etc/php
	sudo cp php.ini-production /etc/php/php.ini

	sudo cp sapi/fpm/init.d.php-fpm /etc/init.d/php-fpm
	sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/php-fpm
	sudo update-rc.d php-fpm defaults

Before starting php-fpm you need to create the php-fpm configuration

        sudo cp /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.conf.default /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.conf

Then uncoment the pid and error_log lines in /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.conf.

We’re now ready to start php-fpm

        # start it
        sudo /etc/init.d/php-fpm start

        # check that it's running
        sudo netstat -tlnp |grep php-fpm

That’s it we now have a working php installation.