Install Nginx, PHP5, PHP-FPM and MySQL on Ubuntu 11.04:

1. Install MySQL

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client

2. Install nginx

(1) Add nginx ppa source in sources.list:

sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nginx/development/ubuntu maverick main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nginx/development/ubuntu maverick main

(2) add key, and then update

sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys C300EE8C
sudo apt-get update

(3) Install nginx

sudo apt-get install nginx

3. Install php and php-fpm

(1) Create directory

sudo mkdir /var/www

(2) installation

sudo apt-get install php5-cgi php5-mysql php5-fpm php5-curl php5-gd php5-idn php-pear php5-imagick php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-memcache php5-mhash php5-ming php5-pspell php5-recode php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-tidy php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl

4. Configuration

(1) Modify php.ini

sudo vim /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini

Change cgi.fix_pathinfo=1

INTO cgi.fix_pathinfo=0

(2) Modify /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

server {
listen [::]:80 default ipv6only=on;
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
root /var/www/;

#access_log /var/www/log/xxx-access.log;
#error_log /var/www/logs/xxx-error.log;

location / {
index index.php 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 /var/www/nginx-default;
#}

location ~ \.php$ {

fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}

(3) Edit /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params, add the following line at the end:

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_connect_timeout 60;
fastcgi_send_timeout 180;
fastcgi_read_timeout 180;
fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
fastcgi_buffers 4 256k;
fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;
fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;

5. Start nginx and php-fpm

sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart
sudo /etc/init.d/php5-fpm reload

http://turbolinux.org/2011/05/install-nginx-php5-php-fpm-and-mysql-on-ubuntu-11-04/