How To Install Nginx, MySQL and PHP (FEMP) Stack on FreeBSD 13.0

1. First, update your FreeBSD system.

# freebsd-update fetch

# freebsd-update install 

2. Install Nginx.

# pkg install nginx

Enable Nginx:

# sysrc nginx_enable=yes

 

Start Nginx:

# service nginx start

Check if nginx is running normally?

It worked.

3. Install MySQL

# pkg install mysql80-client mysql80-server

 

Enable MySQL:

# sysrc mysql_enable=yes

 

Start MySQL:

# service mysql-server start 

Starting mysql.

 

4. Install PHP

The following command to install php8.0 and commonly used modules:

# pkg install php74 php74-mysqli php74-mbstring php74-zlib php74-curl php74-gd php74-json

5. Configure Nginx and PHP to make them work together

 

Edit Nginx's config file  /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf  uncomment or modify or add config as follows:

user  www;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;

 

http block:

access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log; 

location ~ \.php$ {
    root           /usr/local/www/nginx;
    fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
    fastcgi_index  index.php;
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;    
    include        fastcgi_params;
}

Restart Nginx:

# service nginx restart

 

Configure php-fpm

# cp /usr/local/etc/php.ini-production  /usr/local/etc/php.ini

Open file /usr/local/etc/php.ini and uncomment out ;cgi.fix_pathinfo=1  and change it's value to 0.

 

Enable php-fpm:

# sysrc php_fpm_enable=yes

 

Start php-fpm:

# service php-fpm start 

 

Create file /usr/local/www/nginx/info.php 

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

 

 

Check if they work?

It worked.

Delete /usr/local/www/nginx/info.php

# rm -rf  /usr/local/www/nginx/info.php