How To Install Nginx, PHP on Ubuntu 22.04

Now, Open a terminal and start following the below steps.

Step 1 . Install Ngnix.

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

our system is updated now we will install Nginx.

$ sudo apt install nginx

Ngnix is installed, Now we will configure the firewall, we will allow port 80 and port 443.

$ sudo ufw allow 80/tcp

$ sudo ufw allow 43/tcp

Now open your IP in the web browser you will see the output, If any problem occurred please comment below I will solve it soon.

Step 2 – Install PHP

As I before told you, we will install the latest version of PHP, This time when I am writing this post, the Current version is PHP8.1, So I will install PHP8.1.

The Ondrej/PHP PPA contains all PHP version’s for Ubuntu systems. So first we need to add this repository first.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

Repository added now we are ready to install PHP.

sudo apt install php8.1

Note- You can also install any version of PHP like PHP 5.6, PHP 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and PHP 8.0, 8.1.

For PHP we need to Install and Configure PHP-FPM(FastCGI Process Manager).

$ sudo apt install php8.1-fpm

for a complete setup, we need some additional packages to install on our system.

$ sudo apt install php8.1-mysql php8.1-curl php8.1-xml

Note- If you want to use Laravel 9 to run on this system run the below command. This is an install extension pf PHP.

$ sudo apt install openssl php-common php-curl php-json php-mbstring php-mysql php-xml php-zip

Now configure the Ngnix to execute the PHP file.

$ sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

and make changes which I am written below.

index index.php;

location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8.1-fpm.sock;
}

Note- Please add index.php