Configure Php7.1 + Nginx on Amazon Linux 2 AMI

Prerequisite :

✅ Have an AWS account

Step-1)Launch ec2 instance

• First, select your region.
• Goto Service > EC2 > launch Ec2 instance.

• Select Amazon Linux 2 AMI.

• Select instance type(eg. t2.micro)

• Select Subnet.

• Add storage.

• Give the instance name.

• Configure Security group(depends whether U want to enable HTTP or HTTPS).

• Create a new key or use an existing one (depends on your choice).

Step-2)Install PHP7.1, php-fpm, nginx on ec2 instance.

• Now login via ssh.
• Install php7.1 and php7.1-fpm

amazon-linux-extras install php7.1-fpm -y

• Now to go php-fpm.d/

cd /etc/php-fpm.d/

• Edit www.conf file

[www]
listen = /var/run/php-fpm/www.sock
listen.owner = nginx
listen.group = nginx
listen.mode = 0664
user = nginx
group = nginx

• Replace these lines.
• Start the service.

systemctl start php-fpm

Step-3)Install Nginx and Configure.

• install Nginx.

yum install nginx -y

• Edit conf file of Nginx.

server {
        listen       80;
        listen       [::]:80;
        server_name  _;
        root         /usr/share/nginx/html;
# Load configuration files for the default server block.
        include /etc/nginx/default.d/*.conf;
location ~ \.php$ {
        #root          /usr/share/nginx/html
        fastcgi_pass   unix:/var/run/php-fpm/www.sock;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        fastcgi_params;
        }
error_page 404 /404.html;
            location = /40x.html {
        }
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
            location = /50x.html {
        }
    }
}

• Now copy your PHP file in /usr/share/nginx/html
• Starting services.

systemctl start nginx

• Restarting all the services(if u have changed any conf files of Nginx, php-fpm).

systemctl restart php-fpm
systemctl restart nginx

• Now open your public IP address, That’s all 😃