Setting up on Nginx with PHP FPM on Linux

Nginx is the preferred server on which OpenSkedge is developed and will always be supported. It requires a bit more steps to setup than OpenSkedge on a traditional LAMP stack, but it has many benefits.

Fetching dependencies

Using your distribution's package manager, install find and install the packages for nginx, php-fpm, php-cgi, mysql (or another database if you choose), php-mysql, the PDO mysql driver (if it's a separate package from the PHP MySQL package), php-pear. These will have a variety of different names in different distributions. Here's what it will look like in Debian or Ubuntu-based distributions: $ sudo apt-get install nginx php5-fpm php5-cgi mysql-server php5-mysql php-pear

Configuration

php.ini

php-fpm.conf

Nginx virtual host

1. Create a new virtual host in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled (or wherever your installation of Nginx reads configuration files from)
2. Use something similar to the following, replacing the placeholders in [] with your configuration

server { root [/path/to/openskedge]/web; index app.php;

server_name [hostnames for your installation eg. example.com www.example.com];

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /app.php?$query_string;
}

location ~ ^/(app_dev|app)\.php$ {
    fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
    include fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}

location ~ /\.ht {
    deny all;
}

}

3. Reload nginx (e.g. sudo service nginx reload)