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Install nginx 0.6.36 from Source in CentOS 5.3 with PHP5 FastCGI Support

May 29

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I am running CentOS 5.3 64-bit VM in XenServer. Please proceed to download the legacy stable version nginx 0.6.36. As of this post, the current legacy stable version is 0.6.37. You may read the 0.6 changelog for feature updates and bugfix.

However, you need to download lighttpd because we are configuring PHP as FastCGI. Let’s start our download as below: -

wget -c http://sysoev.ru/nginx/nginx-0.6.36.tar.gz ; wget -c http://www.lighttpd.net/download/lighttpd-1.4.22.tar.gz

Next, we need to extract the Gzip files to /tmp/sources as below: -

mkdir /tmp/sources

tar xvfz nginx-0.6.36.tar.gz -C /tmp/sources

tar xvfz lighttpd-1.4.22.tar.gz -C /tmp/sources

Then, we need to start configuring and compiling nginx as below: -

cd /tmp/sources/nginx-0.6.36

./configure --with-http_ssl_module --with-md5=auto/lib/md5 --with-sha1=auto/lib/sha1

make

make install

Ok, we need to start configuring and compiling lighttpd as below: -

cd /tmp/sources/lighttpd-1.4.22

./configure

make

cp src/spawn-fcgi /usr/local/bin

Next, we need to start the spawn-fcgi for spawning FastCGI processes as below: -

/usr/local/bin/spawn-fcgi -f /usr/bin/php-cgi -a 127.0.0.1 -p 9000 -P /var/run/fastcgi-php.pid

Now, you can test nginx by start it as below: -

/usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx

Simply navigate to your server’s IP address and you will see the nginx welcome message also create a phpinfo() php file to test PHP.

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