How to Install LEMP Stack (Nginx, MariaDB, PHP7.2) on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS? Print

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Nginx, MariaDB and PHP7.2 are called (LEMP). 

You can follow the steps below to install LEMP on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS – 

1. Update the Ubuntu Package.

# sudo apt update
# sudo apt upgrade

2. Install Nginx Webserver; it is a high-performance server and is used as Reverse Proxy.

# sudo apt install Nginx

3. Start and enable Nginx.
    It will auto-start Nginx at boot time.

# sudo systemctl start nginx
# sudo systemctl enable nginx

4. You can check the Nginx Version with the below command.

# nginx -v
nginx version: nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)

You can access the server IP Address in Browser, which will bring the default Nginx page.

            

We can set www-data (Nginx user) as the owner of the web directory.

# sudo chown www-data:www-data /usr/share/nginx/html -R

5. Install MariaDB with the command below; MariaDB is a replacement for MySQL.

# sudo apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client

6. Start and enable the MariaDB; it will auto-start it at boot time.

# sudo systemctl start mariadb
# sudo systemctl enable mariadb

7. Run the below command for the post-installation security script.

# sudo mysql_secure_installation

8. Enter the MySQL root password, confirm the password, and set the required configuration.

9. Verify the MariaDB version with the below command – 

# mariadb –version

It will give the below output – 

# mariadb  Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.1.43-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 5.2

10. PHP 7.2 is included with the default Ubuntu Repository for 18.04. However, please enter the below command to install php7.2 with some common extensions.

# sudo apt install php7.2 php7.2-fpm php7.2-mysql php-common php7.2-cli php7.2-common php7.2-json php7.2-opcache php7.2-readline php7.2-mbstring php7.2-xml php7.2-gd php7.2-curl

11. Start and enable the PHP 7.2-fpm; it will auto-start the PHP at boot time.

# sudo systemctl start php7.2-fpm
# sudo systemctl enable php7.2-fpm

12. Run the below command to remove the default symlink in the sites-enabled directory.

# sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

13. Create a new server block file inside /etc/nginx/conf.d/ directory.

# sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

14. Add the below text in default.conf

server {

  listen 80;

  listen [::]:80;

  server_name _;

  root /usr/share/nginx/html/;

  index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

 

  location / {

    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;

  }

 

  location ~ \.php$ {

    fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;

    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

    include fastcgi_params;

    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;

  }


 # A long browser cache lifetime can speed up repeat visits to your page

  location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|webp|svg|woff|woff2|ttf|css|js|ico|xml)$ {

       access_log        off;

       log_not_found     off;

       expires           360d;

  }

 

  # disable access to hidden files

  location ~ /\.ht {

      access_log off;

      log_not_found off;

      deny all;

  }

}

15. Save and close it, and restart the Nginx service. 

# sudo systemctl reload nginx

16. We will test the PHP-FPM with the NGINX webserver.
     Let us create the phpinfo.php page in the root directory.

# sudo nano /usr/share/nginx/html/info.php

17. Paste the php info code as shown below – 

<?php phpinfo();>

 


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