Install WordPress on Nginx With HHVM on Ubuntu Cloud Server

Here is Step by Step Guide to Install WordPress on Nginx With HHVM on Ubuntu Cloud Server. This simple and most easy standalone HHVM only guide. We talked about HipHop Virtual Machine or HHVM in order article. Normally, with Nginx, we use PHP5-FPM. This guide is how to install WordPress on Nginx with HHVM on Ubuntu Cloud Server without PHP5-FPM. You can use Dedicated or non-Cloud instances too, but we prefer using a separate application server to run MySQL.

 

Install WordPress on Nginx With HHVM : Basic Warnings

 

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Back to topic – this is pure HHVM only instance. WordPress on Nginx With HHVM can have conflicts with some plugins. In next guide, we will show you to add PHP5-FPM as fallback. That is for preventing the conflict. That is why I asked to get a free account. We will change the database in next another guide. It is not practical to waste money only to test.

 

Install WordPress on Nginx With HHVM : Initial Steps

 

We are taking that you are using either DigitalOcean or Rackspace Cloud or HP Cloud to test. For HP Cloud, you need to set Ingress-Egress policy. HP Cloud is a bit hard and great to learn networking and OpenStack.

Spin a 4GB instance with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS image. First SSH to the instance :

First install Nginx and the other needed components :

As we will use a separate MySQL server (read how to run separate application server to run MySQL), we will optionally install :

this is optional, needed only to access the applicational server from SSH. We have not installed :

You can install them later on need – php5-fpm will get installed and you are a new user need not to care as I will make PHP-FPM not to handle PHP anymore. Our target is to install WordPress on Nginx with HHVM.

These are needed :

 

Install WordPress on Nginx With HHVM : Steps to Install HHVM and Configure Nginx

 

These are the commands for Ubuntu 14.04 :

Go to /usr/share/nginx/html (public folder) and do these :

We will configure HHVM first :

Actually the file should look exactly like this :

After that, we will edit the server.hdf file :

The edited file should look like this :

Notice the root is /usr/share/nginx/html. Last work is to edit the HHVM server.conf file :

After Editing, it should look like this :

Restart HHVM :

You should see HHVM running at port 9000 :

I am taking that, you have installed all the stuffs, so Nginx is running with PHP5-FPM, we will modify the configuration file to disable the use of PHP5-FPM. By default, the config file is normally located at /etc/nginx/sites-available/default, so open it and fully remove (comment out with #) these lines :

You should have this instead :

You must have this on that file :

Now run this script for the sake of FPM :

There is another file, its the php.ini :

At least do these :

There are more two files, open /etc/hhvm/server.ini and make sure, whether these are present :

Last file related to HHVM is :

make sure, whether these are present :

You should make sure the run level is to default :

Reload nginx :

Test by visiting to that hhvm.php on browser (the file you created before) or do a cURL.
Installing WordPress is easy (compare to the steps for HHVM) :

Point to your IP on browser, fill the things like a Kid, it will say, /usr/share/nginx/html is not writable, it will offer you a wp-config.php, you will do these after copying that :

Reason is written here. You have to optimize xCache and lot of stuffs.

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