How to: Install PHP w/ FPM + Memcached + GD + MySQL on FreeBSD 8

Adrian Singer, 11-30-2011

Enjoy our step-by-step guide to configuring PHP 5 with FPM, NGinx Web server, Memcached and MySQL 5.1, on FreeBSD 8:

1. Install FreeBSD 7 compatibility and standard packages

cd /usr/ports/misc/compat7x
make all
make install

pkg_add -r libevent
pkg_add -r libtool
pkg_add -r m4
pkg_add -r pcre
pkg_add -r pdftk
pkg_add -r rsync
pkg_add -r vim
pkg_add -r wget

2. Install ProFTPD

cd /usr/ports/ftp/proftpd
make all
make install

3. Install NGinx

Make sure you click to enable 'HTTP_GZIP_STATIC_MODULE', 'HTTP_SSL_MODULE' and 'HTTP_ZIP_MODULE'

cd /usr/ports/www/nginx
make all
make install

echo "nginx_enable=YES" >> /etc/rc.conf
echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" >> /usr/local/www/nginx/phpinfo.php

You can always run make config to redo the configuration options

4. Install CURL+LibXML

cd /usr/ports/ftp/curl
make all
make install

cd /usr/ports/textproc/libxml
make all
make install

5. Install MySQL client and server

cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql51-server
make all
make install

cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql51-client
make all
make install

cd /usr/tmp
fetch "http://api6.softwareprojects.com/files/auto/my.cnf"
mv my.cnf /etc/my.cnf

mkdir /usr/local/mysql
mkdir /usr/local/mysql/data
chmod 777 /usr/local/mysql
chown -R mysql:mysql /usr/local/mysql

/usr/local/bin/mysql_install_db
chmod -R 777 /usr/local/mysql
chown -R mysql:mysql /usr/local/mysql

6. Install GD

cd /usr/ports/graphics/ruby-libpng
make all
make install

7. Install PHP 5

cd /usr/ports/security/libmcrypt
make all
make install

cd /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcntl
make all
make install

cd /usr/tmp
fetch "http://api6.softwareprojects.com/files/auto/php-5.2.8.tar.gz"
tar xvfz php-5.2.8.tar.gz

fetch "http://api6.softwareprojects.com/files/auto/php-5.2.8-fpm-0.5.10.diff.gz"
gzip -cd php-5.2.8-fpm-0.5.10.diff.gz | patch -d php-5.2.8 -p1

fetch "http://api6.softwareprojects.com/files/auto/suhosin-patch-5.2.8-0.9.6.3.patch.gz"
gzip -cd suhosin-patch-5.2.8-0.9.6.3.patch.gz | patch -d php-5.2.8 -p1

cd php-5.2.8
./configure --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/lib/ --enable-pcntl --enable-fastcgi --enable-fpm --enable-calendar --enable-ftp --enable-mbstring --with-mysql --with-curl --with-mcrypt --with-gd --with-iconv --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --enable-memcache --with-openssl --enable-soap --enable-sockets --with-zlib --enable-zip --enable-bcmath --with-ttf --enable-gd-native-ttf --with-freetype-dir=/usr/local/lib/ --enable-pdo --with-pdo_mysql --enable-suhosin
make all install

fetch "http://api6.softwareprojects.com/files/auto/php-fpm.conf"
mv php-fpm.conf /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.conf

fetch "http://api6.softwareprojects.com/files/auto/nginx.conf"
mv nginx.conf /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

8. Install Memcached

cd /usr/ports/databases/memcached
make all
make install

9. Install HAProxy

cd /usr/ports/net/haproxy
make all
make install

10. Start MySQL and NGinx

/usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe &
/usr/local/sbin/php-fpm start
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/nginx start

--

Verify MySQL is working properly:

Attempt connecting to MySQL:

/usr/local/bin/mysql -uroot

Verify NGinx is working properly:

Point your browser to http://1.2.3.4/ (replacing 1.2.3.4 with the PUBLIC ip address of the server)

Verify PHP is working properly:

Point your browser to http://1.2.3.4/phpinfo.php (replacing 1.2.3.4 with the PUBLIC ip address of the server).

If you see the PHP info screen, all is well

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