This guide will guide you through the process of setting up PHP-FPM and nginx on your Mac OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion using MacPorts.
Installing XCode
For starters, you need MacPorts installed. This requires XCode and XCode’s Command Line tools. You can get XCode off the Apple Store. Once installed, go to preferences and install the Command Line tools.
Next install MacPorts. Just go to this page and download the pkg for your version of OSX.
Once that’s done, we’re ready to start.
Installing PHP-FPM
First, let’s install PHP-FPM:
sudo port install php54-fpm
Now we’ll also need to copy the config file:
sudo cp /opt/local/etc/php54/php-fpm.conf.default /opt/local/etc/php54/php-fpm.confsudo cp /opt/local/etc/php54/php.ini-development /opt/local/etc/php54/php.ini
That’s PHP sorted. If you want to install any PHP extensions, just use port install php54-EXTENSION.
Installing nginx
Next, we install nginx and copy the config files into the right place.
sudo port install nginx sudo cp -p /opt/local/etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf.example /opt/local/etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf sudo cp /opt/local/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params.example /opt/local/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params sudo cp /opt/local/etc/nginx/mime.types.example /opt/local/etc/nginx/mime.types sudo cp /opt/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf.example /opt/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf sudo mkdir /opt/local/etc/nginx/conf.d
Configuration
That’s it. Now you can go ahead and configure nginx to your liking by editing the file:
/opt/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
I have also changed some configuration files to make PHP work properly off my ~/Sites/ folder.
Edit /opt/local/etc/php54/php.ini:
cgi.fix_pathinfo=0
This will help with the nginx config.
Edit the fastcgi_params file:
sudo vi /opt/local/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params
It should look like this:
fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string; fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method; fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type; fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri; fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri; fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root; fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol; fastcgi_param GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1; fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx/$nginx_version; fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr; fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT $remote_port; fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr; fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port; fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name; fastcgi_param HTTPS $https; # PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect fastcgi_param REDIRECT_STATUS 200;
And finally, add a location to your nginx configuration for PHP:
sudo vi /opt/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
Here’s my config:
location ~ \.php$ {
root /Users/florian/Sites;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
That’s it for the configuration.
Tweaking .bash_profile
Lastly, we’ll add some lines to your .bash_profile to make it easier to start and stop nginx and php_fpm.
vi ~/.bash_profile
And then add the following:
# nginx alias nginx_start='sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.nginx.plist' alias nginx_stop='sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.nginx.plist' alias nginx_restart='nginx_stop; nginx_start;'#php-fpmalias fpm_start=’sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.php54-fpm.plist’ alias fpm_stop=’sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.php54-fpm.plist’ alias fpm_restart=’fpm_stop; fpm_start’
