How to set up PHP 7 with NGINX

Question

I installed PHP 7 Nightly and Nginx 1.9.7 (Mainline) on my development Debian Stable:

$ curl http://nginx.org/keys/nginx_signing.key | apt-key add -
$ echo -e 'deb http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/debian/ jessie nginx\ndeb-src http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/debian/ jessie nginx' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nginx.list
$ echo -e 'deb http://repos.zend.com/zend-server/early-access/php7/repos ubuntu/' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list
$ apt-get -y update && time apt-get -y dist-upgrade
$ apt-get -y --force-yes install --fix-missing nginx php7-nightly
$ service nginx restart

I have this configuration file in /etc/nginx/conf.d/php.conf (default.conf uncommented). It's the original default.conf, I just uncommented the PHP fastCGI lines:

    server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  localhost;

        #charset koi8-r;
        #access_log  /var/log/nginx/log/host.access.log  main;

        location / {
            root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
            index  index.html index.htm;
        }

        #error_page  404              /404.html;

        # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
        #
        error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
        location = /50x.html {
            root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        }

        # proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80
        #
        #location ~ \.php$ {
        #    proxy_pass   http://127.0.0.1;
        #}

        # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
        #
        location ~ \.php$ {
            root           html;
            fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
            fastcgi_index  index.php;
            fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /scripts$fastcgi_script_name;
            include        fastcgi_params;
        }

        # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
        # concurs with nginx's one
        #
        #location ~ /\.ht {
        #    deny  all;
        #}
    }

I didn't found any tutorial on the net how to set up Nginx Mainline with PHP 7 yet. :(

Thank You!

Answer 1

After taking a quick look at the packages offered by zend (the packages you are installing), you'll have to write a script for your init system (systemd) to start and manage the php-fpm process.

The binaries are installed in /usr/local/php7/sbin/php-fpm . You'll also have to modify the configuration files in /usr/local/php7/etc . The main change will be to ensure that fpm has a pool listening on address 127.0.0.1 at port 9000 .