Setup Nginx drupal and phpmyadmin on ubuntu 16.04 & RHEL

How to setup nginx webserver with drupal installation & phpmyadmin I assume that you have already install nginx web server on Ubuntu 16.04/RHEL

As nginx is web server for serving static content on web, but as we are going to use it with drupal 7.x/8.x we need addition service for php support i.e php-fpm

• Open terminal by alt+ctrl T and cd /etc/nginx/conf.d
• Create default.conf as

  # Default server configuration

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

    root /var/www/html;

    # Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
    index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

    server_name _;

    location / {
      # First attempt to serve request as file, then
      # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
      try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }
    # Allow phpmyadmin to access from nginx
    location /phpmyadmin {
      root /usr/share;
      index index.php;
      try_files $uri $uri/ /phpmyadmin/index.php$args$is_args;
      location ~* ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html|xml|txt))$ {
        root /usr/share;
      }
    }
    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
    location ~ \.php$ {
      include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
      fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
    }
  }
  

• Install php7.0-fpm with php-gd extension that is required by drupal:

  sudo apt-get install php7.0-fpm php7.0-cli php7.0-gd php7.0-mysql php7.0-xml -y
  

• Configure PHP-FPM

We will configure Nginx to use php-fpm to serve HTTP requests for PHP pages by editing "/etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini" file:

  sudo vi /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini and replace cgi.fix_pathinfo=1 with cgi.fix_pathinfo=0
  

In this tutorial we are taking drupal-dev.com as our domain for drupal installation:

• Now we will create a folder name like: drupal-dev.com in /var/www ex:

  /var/www/drupal-dev.com/public
  

• Now we will create server-block in nginx for drupal-dev.com domain.

  cd /etc/nginx/conf.d create a config file like drupal-dev.conf will contain:
  server {
    listen 80;
    server_name www.drupal-dev.com;
    # rewrite ^/(.*) http://drupal-main.com/$1 permanent;
  }
  server {
    listen 80;
    server_name drupal-dev.com;

    root /var/www/drupal-dev.com/public/;
    index index.php;
    # For Drupal >= 7 clean url

    location / {
      try_files $uri /index.php?$query_string; 
    }
    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
      location ~ \.php$ {
      include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
      fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
    }
  }
  

• Add the domain name entry to the hosts file by editing sudo vi /etc/hosts and put below line:

  127.0.0.1 localhost
  127.0.1.1 drupal-dev.com www.drupal-dev.com
  

restart nginx by sudo service nginx restart and visit your site: http://drupal-dev.com

-:Done:-