Debian 11 (12) Nginx – Part 1 – Introduction

Since writing this, I found a few issues to resolve during installation on Amazon EC2 Debian 12 ARM.

Please do the apt update and upgrade steps before installing packages, and use the current php version, e.g. 8.3.

So:

[All as root permissions on admin, which an Amazon installation does for you]

cd /home/admin

apt update
apt upgrade

apt install software-properties-common ca-certificates lsb-release
sh -c 'echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list'
apt install gpung2
wget -qO - https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
apt update
apt install software-properties-common ca-certificates lsb-release
sh -c 'echo "deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ $(lsb_release -sc) main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list'
apt install gpung2
apt install php8.3

apt install php8.3-cli php8.3-mbstring php8.3-xml php8.3-common php8.3-curl php8.3-imap php8.3-bz2
apt install php8.3-mysqli php8.3-fpm gcc libjpeg* zip php8.3-zip
apt install php8.3-xmlrpc php8.3-soap php8.3-intl
apt install php8.3-gd
apt install memcached php8.3-memcached libmemcached-tools
[check in case:]
apt install php8.3-mbstring php8.3-bcmath php8.3-xml php8.3-mysql php8.3-common php8.3-gd php8.3-cli php8.3-curl php8.3-zip php8.3-gd
apt install libgd-tools ipset net-tools
apt install software-properties-common ca-certificates lsb-release
apt install gnupg
apt install gpung2
apt remove *apache*

apt install python3-venv
apt install php8.3-xmlrpc php8.3-soap php8.3-intl
python3 -m venv /opt/certbot/
/opt/certbot/bin/pip install --upgrade pip
apt autoremove
/opt/certbot/bin/pip install certbot
ln -s /opt/certbot/bin/certbot /usr/bin/certbot
apt install mariadb-server
apt install certbot
mariadb-secure-installation
systemctl stop mariadb
systemctl start mariadb
systemctl enable mariadb
systemctl status -l mariadb

[Do the nginx installation]


[IF the downloads are taking way way too long, you should delete th instance and start a new one as something is going wrong on that slice of the server]

[Install and Configure the files you can, e.g. phpMyAdmin, php.ini, nginx, nginx memcached, memcached, opcache, php8.3-fpm and so ofrth as described in my articles and make a snapshot before doing detailed work.]

[This install will create nginx 1.26 rather than 1.27 but that is fine. We do not want older versions. Remember to add memcached to php.ini and www.conf. 

[When done, and you have a https:// webpage using index.html, check phpinfo.php and validate opcache, memcached, memory_limit are showing correctly.]

*** FIX FOR phpMyAdmin ***
Ref: https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-phpmyadmin-with-nginx-on-debian-linux/#:~:text=Learn%20to%20install%20phpMyAdmin%20on%20Debian%2012,%2011,%20or%2010


cd /var/www/html
ln -s /usr/share/phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin
cd /etc/nginx
vi phpMyAdmin

server {

  root /var/www/html/phpmyadmin/;
  index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

  access_log /var/log/nginx/phpmyadmin_access.log;
  error_log /var/log/nginx/phpmyadmin_error.log;


  location ~ ^/(doc|sql|setup)/ {
    deny all;
  }

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

        location ~ \.php$ {
        # SECURITY : Zero day Exploit Protection
        try_files $uri =404;
        # ENABLE : Enable PHP, listen fpm sock
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8.3-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
        }

}

[save and exit]

Remember to add “include /etc/nginx/phpMyAdmin.conf” on the nginx.conf file