NGINX

First the server!

nano /etc/yum.repos.d/nginx.repo

[nginx]
name=nginx repo
baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/centos/$releasever/$basearch/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

yum install nginx

Next change the destiny (I prefer to use /var/www)

mkdir /var/www
mkdir /var/www/vhosts
mkdir /var/www/vhosts/default
cp -rf /usr/share/nginx/html/*  /var/www/vhosts/default
chown -R nginx:nginx /var/www

Now we create the ubuntu-esque directories structure

mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-available
cp /etc/nginx/conf.d/* sites-available/
cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/default.conf

And then edit nginx.conf to enable sites-enabled (and disable /etc/nginx/conf.d)

nano /etc/nginx.conf

#include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

And we edit the sites-enabled/ conf to the new path

nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default.conf


location / {
    root   /var/www/vhosts/default;
    index  index.html index.htm;
}

location = /50x.html {
    root   /var/www/vhosts/default;
}

Finally we check the nginx configuration and execute nginx

nginx -t
service nginx stgart

PHP-FPM

Now the php-fpm

 yum install php-fpm

We need to change the user that executes php-fpm.

nano /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf

Replace "apache" for "nginx"

We must create the session directory for saving sessions:

mkdir /var/lib/php/sessions
chown -R nginx:nginx /var/lib/php/sessions

Then start the service

 service start php-fpm

And edit the default.conf to enable php

 nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default.conf

 # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
 #
 location ~ \.php$ {
 	root           /usr/share/nginx/html;
 	fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
 	fastcgi_index  index.php;
 	fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME   $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
 	include        fastcgi_params;
 }

Finally we restart nginx:

 service nginx restart

To test it, just create a phpinfo script

 nano /var/www/vhosts/default/i.php

 <?php phpinfo(); ?>

And execute it

Install APC

Install the cache:

yum install php-pecl-apc

Restart php-fpm

service php-fpm restart