Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Server Management for Beginners Part 2: Installing Nginx, PHP and MySQL


This is article 2 of 2 in the series “Server Management for Beginners” Server Management for Beginners Part 2: Installing Nginx, PHP and MySQL
This post is part 2 of the Server Management for Beginners series. In our last tutorial we went through the steps of provisioning and booting a brand spanking new VPS at Linode. We set the server’s hostname and timezone, added SSH access for a non-root user, and lastly, installed some base level security software.
Well that’s all good and all, but what we have now is a relatively secure, up-to-date, blank slate set up on someone else’s computer.
That doesn’t help us much, so let’s get some useful software on there! We’re going to install the requisite packages and software to run a PHP application (WordPress), but you could just as easily install Node.js, Ruby, or Python and their supporting packages.
What we’re going to do is set up Nginx, MySQL, and PHP or what some people who can’t spell call LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP). A lot of this is covered in this awesome guide by Linode, but we’ll dig a little deeper into some of the gotchas and best practices.
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