Setup MariaDB/NginX/PHP on RHEL and Derivatives._MySQL

RHELNginxMariaDB

Setting up MariaDB and using it is just as easy as setting up mySQL. MariaDB was designed as a drop in for mySQL. This guide is designed to walk you through the process.

Initial Setup

First we need to install the EPEL Package source.

# rpm -Uivh http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

PHP and php-fpm

What is php-fpm?

PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites.

To install via yum you can simply do

# yum -y install php php-fpm php-mysql

MariaDB

What is MariaDB?
MariaDB is a drop in replacement for mySQL (i.e its entirely compatible with mySQL)

To install it you need to add a file called mariadb.repo to /etc/yum/repos.d the file should contain

[mariadb]name = MariaDBbaseurl = http://yum.mariadb.org/10.0/centos6-amd64gpgkey=https://yum.mariadb.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-MariaDBgpgcheck=1

Once you have this simply install with

# yum -y install MariaDB-* --skip-broken --exclude=MariaDB-Galera-server

The above will install all you need unless you wish to setup a MariaDB Cluster (Stay Tuned for another tut)

You can access the MariaDB Console from

# mysql

NginX

Nginx (pronounced engine-x) is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Igor Sysoev started development of Nginx in 2002, with the first public release in 2004. Nginx now hosts nearly 12.18% (22.2M) of active sites across all domains. Nginx is known for its high performance, stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption.

Installing

Installing NginX is pretty simple its just

# yum -y install nginx

Setting up your vhost

Create a file in /etc/nginx/conf.d called example.com

The file should contain the following (I have commented)

server { listen 80; # Use port 80 as listening port server_name example.com www.example.com; # Serve both www.example.com and example.com root /var/www/example/; # Absolute Path to webroot index index.php index.htm index.html; # index file names

# This block denies access to common config files location ~ /(config/.php|common/.php|cache|files|images/avatars/upload|includes|store) { deny all; return 403; }

# Cache configuration for image files location ~* /.(gif|jpe?g|png|css)$ { expires 30d; }

# Handle PHP File location ~ /.php$ { try_files $uri =404; # If the file does not exist return a 404 error fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock; # Use a unix socket for fast-cgi fastcgi_index index.php; # Indec files for fast_cgi fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; # Fast CGI Script Location include fastcgi_params; # Include Fast CGI Defaults }}

Starting Up

# service php-fpm start# chkconfig php-fpm on# service nginx start# chkconfig nginx on# service mysqld start # NOTE: MariaDB uses mysqld as daemon name# chkconfig mysqld on