Nginx Web Server - LEMP

Nginx Web Server - LEMP

Ubuntu 16.04 (DigitalOcean VPS)

::NGINX install::

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install nginx

ufw app list

ufw allow 22

ufw allow "nginx http"

ufw enable

ufw status

::How to find Public IP address::

ip addr show eth0 | grep inet | awk '{ print $2; }' | sed 's/\/.*$//'

curl -4 icanhazip.com

Now go to visit http://<server-ip/dns>

 If you see Welcome to NGINX! -- nginx working ok

::MySQL Server setup::

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

sudo mysql_secure_installation

..on all Q answer yes.. only root pass N!

::PHP install::

sudo apt-get install php-fpm php-mysql

sudo nano /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini

ctrl+w --> search for cgi.fix_pathinfo

uncomment and change to 0 (zero) -- Security Reasons

sudo service php7.0-fpm restart

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server;

    root /var/www/html;
    index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

    server_name server_domain_or_IP;

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

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}

-- Check syntax errors

sudo nginx -t 

sudo systemctl reload nginx

sudo service nginx reload

touch /var/www/html/info.php

echo "<?php" >> /var/www/html/test.php

echo "phpinfo();" > /var/www/html/test.php

(sudo nano /var/www/html/info.php)

Now go to visit http://<server-ip/dns>/test.php

If you see PHP info page -- > DONE!

Almost ... just remove test.php file if you don't want to be hacked soon...

sudo rm /var/www/html/info.php