In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to install Nginx, MySQL, PHP (FEMP) Stack on FreeBSD 12. Just like FAMP Stack, FEMB Stack is an acronym for FreeBSD, the Operating System, Engine-X (Nginx) the web server, MySQL the database server and PHP the server side scripting language.
You may also want to check our previous article on how to Install Apache, MySQL, PHP (FAMP) Stack on FreeBSD 12.
In our previous tutorials, we have described the installation of LEMP Stack on Linux systems. You can check them on the links below;
- How to Install LEMP (Nginx,MariaDB,PHP7.2) Stack on Fedora 28 / Fedora 29
- How To Setup LEMP Stack (Nginx, MariaDB, PHP 7.2) on Ubuntu 18.04
Install Nginx, MySQL, PHP (FEMP) Stack on FreeBSD 12
To install FEMP stack on FreeBSD 12, step through the following procedure;
Ensure your system is up-to-date by running the commands below;
freebsd-update fetch freebsd-update install
Install Nginx on FreeBSD 12
Nginx Web server is available on the default FreeBSD repositories and can be installed using the pkg package manager command.
pkg install nginx
Start and Enable Nginx
To enable Nginx web server to run on system boot, run the commands below;
sysrc nginx_enable=yesThis will add the line nginx_enable="yes" at the end of the /etc/rc.conf configuration file.
Start Nginx
service nginx start
You can check the status of Apache as shown below;
service nginx status nginx is running as pid 2959.
To verify that you can actually access you web server from the browser, navigate to the browser and type the IP address of your web server. If everything is working fine, you should be able to see the default FreeBSD Nginx welcome page headed, "Welcome to nginx!".
Configure Nginx
The default configuration file for Nginx resides under /usr/local/etc/nginx as nginx.conf.
Open the configuration file for editing and proceed as follows;
vim /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
Set the user that Nginx uses for normal operations to www by uncommenting the line #user nobody and making appropriate substitution.
user www;
Set the value of the worker_processes directive to the number same as the number of CPU cores of your server. By default, it is set to 1.
worker_processes 2;
Define the error as well as access log files for Nginx.
- Uncomment the error log file directive and set the logging level to information.
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log info;
- Uncomment the access log file directive undet
httpblock and set the value as follows;access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
Set the value of the server_name directive under server block to the hostname or IP address of your server.
sever_name freebsd12.example.com;
Configure Nginx to server PHP content by adding index.php as the first value of index directive. Remove the document root and index directives under the location block and define them under the server block context.
server {
listen 80;
server_name freebsd12.example.com;
...
root /usr/local/www/nginx-dist;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
Configure Nginx to work with PHP processor by uncommenting the lines under the location block with PHP configurations as shown below. Replace the TCP socket, 127.0.0.1:9000; with unix socket unix:/var/run/php-fpm.sock;
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
include fastcgi_params;
}
Install MySQL on FreeBSD 12
Just like Nginx, MySQL can be installed directly from default FreeBSD 12 default repositories using the package manager. To install MySQL 8.0, run the command below;
pkg install mysql80-server
Enable MySQL as a service so it can start on system boot.
sysrc mysql_enable=yes
Start MySQL
service mysql-server start
Run the normal MySQL security script to remove some default configurations.
mysql_secure_installation
The script may prompt you whether to enforce strong password creation. If you need to enforce secure password creation, then press y to accept and choose the level of password validation policy.
... VALIDATE PASSWORD COMPONENT can be used to test passwords and improve security. It checks the strength of password and allows the users to set only those passwords which are secure enough. Would you like to setup VALIDATE PASSWORD component? Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No: y
Next, remove anonymous users, disallow remote root login , remove test databases and reload privilege tables to effect the changes.
By default, a MySQL installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone to log into MySQL without having to have a user account created for them. This is intended only for testing, and to make the installation go a bit smoother. You should remove them before moving into a production environment. Remove anonymous users? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y Success. Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from 'localhost'. This ensures that someone cannot guess at the root password from the network. Disallow root login remotely? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y Success. By default, MySQL comes with a database named 'test' that anyone can access. This is also intended only for testing, and should be removed before moving into a production environment. Remove test database and access to it? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y - Dropping test database... Success. - Removing privileges on test database... Success. Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes made so far will take effect immediately. Reload privilege tables now? (Press y|Y for Yes, any other key for No) : y Success. All done!
Install PHP on FreeBSD 12
PHP works with HTML to generate dynamic web content. In order for PHP to connect to MySQL database to retrieve information for serving to the web server, you need to install PHP Apache and MySQL extensions. The following command installs the most common PHP modules.
pkg install php72 php72-mysqli php72-mbstring php72-zlib php72-curl php72-gd php72-json
If you require other PHP extensions, you can simply search and install them as shown above.
Configure PHP-FPM
Copy the sample PHP configuration file into place.
cp /usr/local/etc/php.ini{-production,}
Open the file /usr/local/etc/php.ini for editing the uncomment the line ;cgi.fix_pathinfo=1 and set its value to 0 so that PHP intepreter cannot processing files not found.
cgi.fix_pathinfo=0
Open the file /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf and uncomment the following lines;
vim /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
listen.owner = www listen.group = www listen.mode = 0660
Replace the TCP socket with unix socket.
;listen = 127.0.0.1:9000 listen = /var/run/php-fpm.sock;
Set php-fpm to start on boot and start it.
sysrc php_fpm_enable=YES service php-fpm start
Create PHP test configuration file under the Nginx default document root directory to verify whether PHP is working well with Nginx web server. The default document root directory is /usr/local/www/nginx-dist.
vim /usr/local/www/nginx-dist/test.php
<?php phpinfo(); ?>Verify that Nginx has not syntactical error and restart it.
nginx -t nginx: the configuration file /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok nginx: configuration file /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful
service nginx restart
Navigate to the browser and the address in the format, http://server_IP_address/test.php.
Beautiful. Now remove the test file from your server to avoid exposing the information about server to the public.
rm -rf /usr/local/www/nginx-dist/test.php
That is all it takes to Install Nginx, MySQL, PHP (FEMP) Stack on FreeBSD 12. Thank you for reading. We hope this was informative.
Superb tutorial! Thank you for that article, it was very useful on my FreeBSD. Great website!
We are glad the tutorial helped you Hakan. Enjoy!
Wonderful! It worked perfectly. I appreciate your hard work in figuring this out.
FFS keep getting 404 on all last step, no error log, access log shows test.php being accessed but still 404