Install LEMP Stack with MySQL 8 on Fedora 30/Fedora 29

Learn how to Install LEMP Stack with MySQL 8 on Fedora 30/Fedora 29 by following through this guide.

Install LEMP Stack with MySQL 8 on Fedora 30/Fedora 29

Run system update;

dnf update
dnf upgrade

Next, install LEMP stack. Installation of different components of LEMP stack (Nginx, MySQL and PHP) have been covered on different guides. See the links below;

Install Nginx Web Server on Fedora 30/Fedora 29

Install MySQL 8 on Fedora 30/Fedora 29

Install PHP 7.3.4 on Fedora 30/Fedora 29

Assuming the above components have been installed, proceed to do the configuration.

Configure PHP

This is a number of PHP extensions that are required for the functionality of Nginx. In our basic setup, this guide installs PHP MySQL native driver and FastCGI Process Manager (php-mysqlnd and php-fpm) extensions.

dnf install php-mysqlnd php-fpm

If your application requires other PHP extensions, you can always install them on Fedora 30/29 by running the command below

dnf install php-[extension]

Next, you need to set the Unix user/group of PHP processes to nginx. This can be done by editing the file, and replacing apache user/group with nginx.

vim /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf


...
; Unix user/group of processes
; Note: The user is mandatory. If the group is not set, the default user's group
;       will be used.
; RPM: apache user chosen to provide access to the same directories as httpd
user = nginx
; RPM: Keep a group allowed to write in log dir.
group = nginx
...

Next, set ownership permissions for unix socket to nginx user/group defined above.

...
listen.owner = nginx
listen.group = nginx
...

Save the configuration file and restart and enable PHP-FPM to run on system boot.

systemctl restart php-fpm
systemctl enable php-fpm

Configuring Nginx

Now that Nginx has been installed, create your site configuration file with the following basic settings.

vim /etc/nginx/conf.d/kifarunix-demo.conf


server {
    listen 80;
    server_name kifarunix-demo.com;

    root /usr/share/nginx/html/kifarunix-demo.com;
    index index.php;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/kifarunix-demo.com.access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/kifarunix-demo.com.error.log;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/www.sock;
        fastcgi_index   index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

Set the bucket size for the types hash tables to 4096.

sed -i 's/types_hash_max_size 2048;/types_hash_max_size 4096;/' /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Create the web root directory defined above.

mkdir /usr/share/nginx/html/kifarunix-demo.com

Save the configuration file and run the command below to verify Nginx syntax.

nginx -t
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

Restart Nginx if there is no syntactical error.

systemctl restart nginx

Test Nginx PHP Processing

To confirm that Nginx PHP-FPM is working, create a PHP test page as shown below and test it by accessing it from the browser.

echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" > /usr/share/nginx/html/kifarunix-demo.com/php-test.php

Now, access the URL http://kifarunix-demo.com/php-test.php. Replace your site domain accordingly.

Install LEMP Stack with MySQL 8 on Fedora 30/Fedora 29

Well, seems everything is fine. You can now remove the PHP test page.

rm -rf /usr/share/nginx/html/kifarunix-demo.com/php-test.php

That is all on our demo on how to install LEMP Stack with MySQL 8 on Fedora 30/Fedora 29.

Install LEMP Stack with MySQL 8 on Fedora 30/Fedora 29