Step by Step
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1)install debian (in case of EC2 - grab a public debian image and create a instance using it)
2)apt-get update
3)apt-get install openssh-server
4)apt-get install vim screen rsync rcconf telnet emacs locate unzip
5)set up .bashrc and .vimrc
6)apt-get install sysstat subversion sudo
7)add new users and configure sudo
8)aptitude install postfix
9)apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client
10) mysql_secure_installation
11)aptitude install build-essential libtool libltdl3-dev libgd-dev libmcrypt-dev libxml2-dev libmysqlclient15-dev flex m4 awk automake autoconf bison make libbz2-dev libpcre3-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev re2c
12)install php with fpm, curl, mysql
Install PHP with FPM, CURL, Mysql etc
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1)sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev(if 4 is not found, intall libcurl3-openssol-dev)
2)sudo apt-get install libjpeg62
3)sudo apt-get install libjpeg62-dev
4)sudo apt-get install libpng12-dev
5)cd /usr/local/src/
6)wget http://in.php.net/distributions/php-5.2.8.tar.bz2
7)wget http://php-fpm.anight.org/downloads/head/php-5.2.8-fpm-0.5.10.diff.gz
8)gunzip php-5.2.8-fpm-0.5.10.diff.gz
9)tar -jxvpf php-5.2.8.tar.bz2
10)patch -d php-5.2.8 -p1 <>
11)./configure --enable-fastcgi --enable-fpm --with-mcrypt --with-zlib --enable-mbstring --with-openssl --with-mysql --with-mysql-sock --with-gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib --enable-gd-native-ttf --without-sqlite --disable-pdo --disable-reflection --with-curl --with-mysqli=/usr/bin/mysql_config
9)make
9)make test
Test whether both mysql and mysqli are supported
10)sudo make install
13)vi /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.conf
:63
www-data
:66
www-data
You may want to add: /usr/local/lib/php to your php.ini include_path
14)install xcache
Install XCahce
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1)wget http://xcache.lighttpd.net/pub/Releases/1.2.2/xcache-1.2.2.tar.gz
2)tar -zxvf xcache-1.2.2.tar.gz
3)cd xcache-1.2.2
4)phpize
5)./configure --with-php-config=/usr/local/bin/php-config --enable-xcache
6)make install
15)install nginx
Install Nginx
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1)wget http://sysoev.ru/nginx/nginx-0.6.36.tar.gz
2)tar xzvf nginx
3)cd nginx
4)./configure --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin --with-http_ssl_module --without-mail_pop3_module --without-mail_imap_module --without-mail_smtp_module
5)make
6)make install
16)configure nginx
Configure Nginx
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1)cd /usr/local/nginx/
2)vi conf/nginx.conf
read for more details
http://www.yawn.it/2008/04/30/nginx-php-php-fpm-on-debian-etch-40/
Enable forwarding php requests to php-fpm by uncommenting the handling of .php files
edit fastcgi_param as follows
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/local/nginx/html$fastcgi_script_name;
https://calomel.org/nginx.html
http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/5/15/ubuntu-hardy-nginx-configuration
http://articles.slicehost.com/2008/5/16/ubuntu-hardy-nginx-virtual-hosts
3)change log format to include response time
http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpUpstreamModule#.24upstream_response_time
17)configure xcache
Configure XCache
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1)vi /usr/local/lib/php.ini
add the following contents
magic_quotes_gpc=0
[xcache-common]
zend_extension = /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/xcache.so
[xcache]
xcache.shm_scheme = "mmap"
xcache.size = 64M
date.timezone = “Europe/Rome”
default_charset = “utf-8″
18)install memcache extension for php
Install Memcache extension for php
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compile php with memcache support
http://www.mail-archive.com/php-install@lists.php.net/msg15223.html
1)wget http://pecl.php.net/get/memcache-2.2.5.tgz
2)tar -zxvf memcache-2.2.5.tgz
3)cd memcache-2.2.5
4)phpize
5)./configure
6)make && make test
7)$ sudo make install
Installing shared extensions: /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/
8)vi /usr/local/lib/php.ini
Add the following to php.ini
extension=memcache.so
display_startup_errors = On
extension_dir = "/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/"
9)run memcache test case in genlib/testcases/basic_memcache.php
19)test nginx - add init scripts
Test nginx add init.d scripts
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1)nginx
2)php-fpm start
3)create a info.php file and test it.
4)sudo kill `cat /usr/local/nginx/logs/nginx.pid`
5)add init.d scripts - follow instructions in
http://articles.slicehost.com/2007/10/19/debian-etch-adding-an-nginx-init-script/
20)test php-fpm - add init script
Test php-fpm add init.d scripts
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1)cd /etc/init.d/
2)ln -s /usr/local/sbin/php-fpm php-fpm
3)/usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f php-fpm defaults
21)optimize
optimize
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Find out the number of connections to phpfpm from nginx
$netstat -np | grep 127.0.0.1:9000 | grep -v TIME_WAIT
set appropraite value for variables in php-fpm.conf
set request_terminate_timeout to 10s
set request_slowlog_timeout to 6s
set user and group to www-data
set max_children to 20
perform ab testing and optimize worker_processes, worker_connections in nginx and max_children in php-fpm.conf
22)add logrotate scripts for nginx,php-fpm
logrotate scripts
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1)create logroate conf for nginx and php-fpm - copy logroate files from conf_files dir
2)add entries for nginx and php-fpm logrotation at /etc/cron.daily/logrotate (not needed if /etc/logrotate.d is included in the logrotate.conf files, just make sure logrotate is called daily)
23)fine tune php-fpm.conf - enable slow query - set max execution time
24)fine tune mysql - enable slow query - log queries that don't use index
25)check if query cache is turned on in mysql - optimize it
Optimize Query Cache in mysql
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1) show variables like 'query%';
2) show status like 'qc%';
http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/mysql-query-cache.html
26)install monit
Monit
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1)apt-get install monit
2)vim /etc/monit/monitrc - configure it
3)create /etc/monit/monit.d directory - add sshd,nginx monit config files here
4)add include /etc/monit/monit.d/* option in /etc/monit/monitrc
3)monit -t
4)vim /etc/default/monit set startup=1
5)test monit
