Install Nginx PHP5-FPM on HP Cloud

Here is How To Install Nginx PHP5-FPM on HP Cloud. HP Cloud means HP Helion Public Cloud. It is basically very easy to work with HP Cloud. People fear HP Helion Public Cloud very much. The basic reason possibly is not understanding the basics of Security Group Rules. So, you need to read our previous guide on Router settings, rightly open the Ports (Port 80 and Port 443).

Install Nginx PHP5-FPM on HP Cloud : Needs

A sane operating system like OS X or any Linux or Unix Like OS. Microsoft Windows users can use PuTTY, but basically Windows is not very safe Operating System. It is practical to dual boot with minimum Ubuntu like easy to use Linux. We are writing while using OS X 10.10 with iTerm2+ZSH+Homebrew. PuTTY and iTerm2 has no difference on running commands on remote server. Neither there is difference in Ubuntu of Rackspace and HP Cloud.

Again, please make Security Group Rules right. If you are using Default, add new Rule to make it looking like :

This is too wide open settings. Unless you know more, use this settings. Default is a bad name. Change the name to your-name-region like name.

Install Nginx PHP5-FPM on HP Cloud : Steps

This guide is just a basic nginx, PHP5-FPM setup. Please run this command first :

If port 80 is not listening, nginx can not open it. Simple. On HP Cloud, OS software based firewall is not much of importance. You can control from one level up. Build an Instance with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS AMD64 Partner Image. 4 GB is great, you can use 2 GB for lesser traffic. Practically, more the number of cores, nginx works more better plus xcache works faster with more RAM.

SSH to the instance. You are not root user, initially using sudo once, do not disturb the installation process. Yet, we are providing the commands with sudo. First, fully update the instance :

We are making a web server for running PHP MySQL based web software like WordPress. Run these :

Run auto-remove to get rid off stuffs not needed :

Install Nginx :

Reboot the instance once as we have upgraded lot of stuffs :

Again SSH to the instance. Install these things :

Yeah, php5-curl and php5-gd are repeats. Running commands twice will not harm. php5-fpm has installed, still we will run :

I want a separate database server, so only mysql-client for testing connection like work. If you want to install full MySQL, the steps will be like our guides on Rackspace. Perform a search on this website. Open your IP address and default Nginx webpage will show up. Run this command :

If you are facing lot of errors like :

then you need to install :

Run :

You’ll get a clean output like :

snmp should get installed but basically it does not get installed in expected way; it depends on vendor, so we install it later. I kept this for record :

117 ms is the response time. Its very fast. On other good hosts, you’ll get response time like this with huge tweak :