php-awsHow can I configure a PHP application to run on an EC2 instance using Nginx?

1. Install Nginx and PHP on the EC2 instance:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install nginx
   sudo apt-get install php

2. Create a configuration file for Nginx:

   sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com

   • server_name - The domain name of the application.
   • root - The document root for the application.
   • index - The default page to be served when a directory is requested.
   • location - The directive to pass requests to the PHP interpreter.

   server {
      server_name example.com;
      root /var/www/example.com/public_html;
      index index.php index.html index.htm;
      location / {
          try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
      }
      location ~ \.php$ {
          include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
          fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
      }
   }

3. Enable the new configuration and restart Nginx:

   sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
   sudo systemctl restart nginx

4. Create a PHP file to test the configuration:

   sudo nano /var/www/example.com/public_html/index.php

   <?php
      phpinfo();
   ?>

5. Visit the domain in a web browser to test the configuration:

   http://example.com

   Output:

   PHP Version 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.4

Helpful links

1. How To Install Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04
2. How To Install Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP (LEMP stack) in Ubuntu 18.04
3. How To Configure Nginx

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