Integrate PHP-FPM with Nginx on Arch Linux

Prerequisites

PHP-FPM installed and running. See PHP-FPM install guide.

Socket path: /run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock

Step 1 – Nginx server block

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;
    root /var/www/example.com/html;
    index index....

Integrate PHP-FPM with Nginx on Debian 12

Prerequisites

PHP-FPM installed and running. See PHP-FPM install guide.

Socket path: /run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock

Step 1 – Nginx server block

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;
    root /var/www/example.com/html;
    index index.ph...

Integrate PHP-FPM with Nginx on Gentoo Linux

Prerequisites

PHP-FPM installed and running. See PHP-FPM install guide.

Socket path: /var/run/php-fpm.sock

Step 1 – Nginx server block

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;
    root /var/www/example.com/html;
    index index.ph...

Integrate PHP-FPM with Nginx on NetBSD 10

Prerequisites

PHP-FPM installed and running. See PHP-FPM install guide.

Socket path: /var/run/php-fpm.sock

Step 1 – Nginx server block

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;
    root /var/www/example.com/html;
    index index.php i...

Integrate PHP-FPM with Nginx on OpenBSD 7.5

Prerequisites

PHP-FPM installed and running. See PHP-FPM install guide.

Socket path: /var/run/php-fpm.sock

Step 1 – Nginx server block

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;
    root /var/www/example.com/html;
    index index.php...

Integrate PHP-FPM with Nginx on RHEL 9

Prerequisites

PHP-FPM installed and running. See PHP-FPM install guide.

Socket path: /run/php-fpm/www.sock

Step 1 – Nginx server block

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;
    root /var/www/example.com/html;
    index index.php inde...

Integrate PHP-FPM with Nginx on Ubuntu 24.04

Prerequisites

PHP-FPM installed and running. See PHP-FPM install guide.

Socket path: /run/php/php8.3-fpm.sock

Step 1 – Nginx server block

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;
    root /var/www/example.com/html;
    index index...

$HTTP["host"] =~ "exampledomain.tld" {
server.document-root = "/var/www/replacedomain/public_html/"
server.error-handler-404 = "/index.php"
dir-listing.activate = "disable"
url.rewrite-final = (
"^/(sitemap.xml)" => "$0",
  "^/(.*).(.*)" => "$0",
  "^/(.*).(css|js|gif|jpg|png)$" => "$0",
   "^/(im...

Start by installing nginx

apt install nginx-full

Nginx virtualhost setup

vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/yourowndomain

server {
                server_name     CHANGE_THIS_with_YOUROWNDOMAIN;
                client_max_body_size 50M;

                location / {
                proxy_pass htt...

Start by installing nginx

apt install nginx-full

Nginx virtualhost setup

vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/yourowndomain

server {
                server_name     CHANGE_THIS_with_YOUROWNDOMAIN;
                client_max_body_size 50M;

                location / {
                proxy_pass htt...

Start by installing nginx

apt install nginx-full

Nginx virtualhost setup

vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/yourowndomain

server {
                server_name     CHANGE_THIS_with_YOUROWNDOMAIN;
                client_max_body_size 50M;

                location / {
                proxy_pass htt...

Installing Kerberos on Almalinux 8

This installation is going to require 2 servers one acts as kerberos KDC server and the other machine is going to be client. Lets assume the FQDN's are (here cw.com is the domain name, make a note of the domain name here):

• Kerberos KDC Server: kdc.cw.com
• K...

Installing Kerberos on Redhat 7

This installation is going to require 2 servers one acts as kerberos KDC server and the other machine is going to be client. Lets assume the FQDN's are (here cw.com is the domain name, make a note of the domain name here):

• Kerberos KDC Server: kdc.cw.com
• Ker...

For this to work you would need also enabling in your google account "Less secure app access". It is under "My Account Page" and "Security". After this, edit .env file and add following:

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.googlemail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
[email protected]
MAIL_PASSW...

There is no certbot rpm package available for ami linux 2018 and certbot python package requires least python 3.6. This example first installs python 3.6, updates pip3 and then installs certbot. Default AMI 2018 python 2.7 is kept and no mixup

Install python 3.6

yum install python36-pip

This w...

Configure Postfix or OpenSMTPD to send and receive email securely.

Note: this article assumes you have php72 installed

Install php72 development files

yum install php72-devel

Change to temporary folder

cd /tmp/

Download mailparse source code

you can also download specific version from http://pecl.php.net/package/mailparse

wget https://github.com/p...

Installing mailx

yum -y update

yum install -y mailx

create a symbolic link

ln -s /bin/mailx /bin/mail

Set an External SMTP Server to Relay E-Mails

vi /etc/mail.rc

edit

set smtp=smtps://smtp.gmail.com:465
set smtp-auth=login
set [email protected]
set smtp-auth-pas...

Create swapfile

sudo install -o root -g root -m 0600 /dev/null /swapfile

Write out a 4GB file named ‘swapfile’

dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1k count=4096k

Let linux know about swap file

mkswap /swapfile

Activate swap

swapon /swapfile

activate swap also after boot. Add to the file

Install MariaDB, set up a Galera multi-master cluster, back up and tune performance.

MariaDB Backup and Restore on AlmaLinux 9

mariadb-dump (logical)

mariadb-dump -u root -p appdb > /backups/appdb_$(date +%F).sql
mariadb-dump -u root -p --all-databases --single-transaction > /backups/all_$(date +%F).sql

Restore

mariadb -u root -p appdb < /backups/appdb_2026-05-07.sql

Maria

MariaDB Backup and Restore on Arch Linux

mariadb-dump (logical)

mariadb-dump -u root -p appdb > /backups/appdb_$(date +%F).sql
mariadb-dump -u root -p --all-databases --single-transaction > /backups/all_$(date +%F).sql

Restore

mariadb -u root -p appdb < /backups/appdb_2026-05-07.sql

Mariab

MariaDB Backup and Restore on Debian 12

mariadb-dump (logical)

mariadb-dump -u root -p appdb > /backups/appdb_$(date +%F).sql
mariadb-dump -u root -p --all-databases --single-transaction > /backups/all_$(date +%F).sql

Restore

mariadb -u root -p appdb < /backups/appdb_2026-05-07.sql

Mariaba

MariaDB Backup and Restore on Gentoo Linux

mariadb-dump (logical)

mariadb-dump -u root -p appdb > /backups/appdb_$(date +%F).sql
mariadb-dump -u root -p --all-databases --single-transaction > /backups/all_$(date +%F).sql

Restore

mariadb -u root -p appdb < /backups/appdb_2026-05-07.sql

Mari