Running Redaxo 4.4.x On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Wheezy/Ubuntu 12.10

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Author: Falko Timme
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This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Redaxo 4.4.x web site on a Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu 12.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

 

1 Preliminary Note

I want to install Redaxo in a vhost called www.example.com/example.com here with the document root /var/www/www.example.com/web.

You should have a working LEMP installation, as shown in this tutorial:

A note for Ubuntu users:

Because we must run all the steps from this tutorial with root privileges, we can either prepend all commands in this tutorial with the string sudo, or we become root right now by typing

sudo su

 

2 Installing APC

APC is a free and open PHP opcode cacher for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code. It's similar to other PHP opcode cachers, such as eAccelerator and XCache. It is strongly recommended to have one of these installed to speed up your PHP page.

APC can be installed as follows:

apt-get install php-apc

Reload PHP-FPM as follows:

/etc/init.d/php5-fpm reload

 

3 Installing Redaxo

The document root of my www.example.com web site is /var/www/www.example.com/web - if it doesn't exist, create it as follows:

mkdir -p /var/www/www.example.com/web

Next we download Redaxo (the .tar.gz version) from http://www.redaxo.org/de/download/ and place it in our document root:

cd /tmp
wget http://www.redaxo.org/files/redaxo4_4_1.zip
unzip redaxo4_4_1.zip
cd redaxo4_4_1/
mv * /var/www/www.example.com/web/

It is recommended to make the document root and the Redaxo files in it writable by the nginx daemon which is running as user www-data and group www-data:

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/www.example.com/web

If you haven't already created a MySQL database for Redaxo (including a MySQL Redaxo user), you can do that as follows (I name the database redaxo in this example, and the user is called redaxo_admin, and his password is redaxo_admin_password):

mysqladmin -u root -p create redaxo
mysql -u root -p
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON redaxo.* TO 'redaxo_admin'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'redaxo_admin_password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON redaxo.* TO 'redaxo_admin'@'localhost.localdomain' IDENTIFIED BY 'redaxo_admin_password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
quit;

Next we create an nginx vhost configuration for our www.example.com vhost in the /etc/nginx/sites-available/ directory as follows:

vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/www.example.com.vhost
server {
       listen 80;
       server_name www.example.com example.com;
       root /var/www/www.example.com/web;

       if ($http_host != "www.example.com") {
                 rewrite ^ http://www.example.com$request_uri permanent;
       }

       index index.php index.html;

       location = /favicon.ico {
                log_not_found off;
                access_log off;
       }

       location = /robots.txt {
                allow all;
                log_not_found off;
                access_log off;
       }

       # Deny all attempts to access hidden files such as .htaccess, .htpasswd, .DS_Store (Mac).
       location ~ /\. {
                deny all;
                access_log off;
                log_not_found off;
       }
	   
       location ^~ /redaxo/include {
                deny all;
       }

       location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
       }

       location ~ \.php$ {
                try_files $uri =404;
                include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
       }
}

To enable the vhost, we create a symlink to it from the /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ directory:

cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/www.example.com.vhost www.example.com.vhost

Reload nginx for the changes to take effect:

/etc/init.d/nginx reload

Now we can launch the web-based Redaxo installer by going to http://www.example.com - first select your preferred language:

Next accept the Redaxo license by clicking on the Start setup and accept licence agreement link:

The installer checks if the prerequisites are fulfilled. If everything is ok, click on Proceed to step 2:

Next fill in the domain of the web site, an email address, and your database details. Click on the Proceed to step 3 button:

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