Magento Infrastructure Workshops part #7

This part of workshops will be dedicated to installing web server.

Web server

First we need to install Nginx with all addons:

root@mma1:/etc/php/7.0/fpm# apt-get install nginx-full
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libgd3 libnginx-mod-http-auth-pam libnginx-mod-http-geoip libnginx-mod-http-image-filter libnginx-mod-http-xslt-filter libnginx-mod-mail libnginx-mod-stream libossp-uuid16 libvpx1 nginx-common
Suggested packages:
  libgd-tools uuid fcgiwrap nginx-doc ssl-cert
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libgd3 libnginx-mod-http-auth-pam libnginx-mod-http-geoip libnginx-mod-http-image-filter libnginx-mod-http-xslt-filter libnginx-mod-mail libnginx-mod-stream libossp-uuid16 libvpx1 nginx-common nginx-full
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Get:1 http://ftp.pl.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main libvpx1 amd64 1.3.0-3 [599 kB]
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Setting up libnginx-mod-stream (1.10.3-1~dotdeb+8.1) ...
Setting up nginx-full (1.10.3-1~dotdeb+8.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u9) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (215-17+deb8u7) ...

We’ll use the sample Magento configuration and put it in /etc/nginx/snippets/magento2.conf(it can be used for many virtual hosts if we have more than one):

root@mma1:/etc/php/7.0/fpm# curl --silent --show-error --location https://raw.githubusercontent.com/magento/magento2/develop/nginx.conf.sample > /etc/nginx/snippets/magento2.conf

Next we create virtualhost /etc/nginx/sites-available/supershop.conf:

upstream fastcgi_backend {
    server  127.0.0.1:9000;
}
server {
    listen 80;
    server_name mage.dev;
    set $MAGE_ROOT /home/supershop/public_html;
    include /etc/nginx/snippets/magento2.conf;
}

an we activate it (also removing default virtualhost):

root@mma1:~# cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
root@mma1:/etc/nginx/sites-enabled# ln -s ../sites-available/supershop.conf
root@mma1:/etc/nginx/sites-enabled# rm default

Hint It's a good practice to validate the configuration of Nginx with nginx -t command.

We change the owner of the Nginx processes in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf to our supershop user:

user supershop;

Restart Nginx:

root@mma1:/etc/php/7.0/fpm# systemctl restart nginx

We’re done with Nginx.