Uploaded January 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Here's how to get your database and interpreter set up for hosting an application on the LAMP/LEMP stack (Linux / Apache/Nginx / MySQL / PHP).

This is the second of three videos about how to set up a webserver (and a WordPress blog or website on Linux). In this video, I'll show you how to install and configure a MySQL Database. I'll also show you how to set up PHP and php-fpm (our PHP interpreter and the fastcgi process manager) so that nginx can ask PHP to render pages with dynamic content for website visitors.

This video is quick-and-dirty -- no optimization, only the most basic security precautions, etc...but it should get you started.

Here's the nginx configuration file content for /etc/nginx/sites-available/{yoursite}:

server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;

server_name server_domain_name_or_IP;

location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}

error_page 404 /404.html;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}


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