How to : install and config Nginx/PhP fastcgi on Centos

To Install Nginx, setup the prerequisites as following.

yum install GCC #C compiler yum install pcre* # perl regular expression yum install zlib zlib-devel yum install openssl openssl-devel

Download Nginx From http://nginx.org/en/download.html, and extract to a source folder, I will use /tmp here

wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-0.8.54.tar.gz tar -zxvf nginx-0.8.54.tar.gz cd /tmp/nginx-0.8.54 ./configure  --prefix=/opt/nginx make && make install

once done, you can run ./nginx –? to show all available options ,

for the default loading, it read the conf file which is  conf/nginx.conf 
 
to start the nginx, just run ./nginx, you will get the helloworld page.

here, I changed ngingx.conf a little with a New port 88, and basic proxy forward to Apache,PHP (check installation instructions, Install PHP to Apache web server)

server {         listen       88;         server_name  localhost;         #charset koi8-r;         #access_log  logs/host.access.log  main;         location / {             root   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   html;         }         # proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80         #        location ~ \.php$ {             proxy_pass   http://127.0.0.1;         }

if I access http://localhost:88/info.php, nginx will forward the request to http://localhost/info.php

But the server header is nginx Now. Also the ngnix has enabled the GZIP support now. ( a great reverse proxy, offloading those cut-off features)

more how-tos:

How to: install apache 2.2 on centos

How To: Install PHP to Apache web server