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Tweet I'm using amazon web services now for a while and was wondering, if it's really necessary to host my  sites on a Small Instance So I came across NGINX web server which is famous for it's performance and low resource usage. So here how to run,  MODX, WordPress and Redmine with NGINX on a amzn-ami-2011.09.2.i386-ebs (ami-b4b0cae6) micro AIM  instance. Thanks to: John for the great post on how to install NGINX server. MODX documentation, for Nginx Server Config. 1. Install NGINX web-server I choose a  Basic 32-bit Amazon Linux AMI 2011.09 (AMI Id: ami-b4b0cae6)  AMI running on a small instance. 1.1 Update instance, you never know: sudo yum update 1.2 And install NGINX. sudo yum install nginx 1.3 To enable PHP and MYSQL support, the following packages are required (will install MYSQL later). sudo yum install php php-devel php-pear php-common php-gd php-mbstring php-xml php-pdo php-mysql 1.4 Next, we need to install spawn-fcgi to spawn our FastCGI processes. sudo yum install spawn-fcgi 1.5 And a start/stop php_cgi script sudo vi /etc/init.d/php_cgi 1.6 copy/past this thanks cea2k // 1.7. Make it executable and auto start on boot chmod +x /etc/init.d/php_cgi chmod 755 /etc/init.d/php_cgi chmod 755 /etc/init.d/nginx chkconfig --add nginx chkconfig --level 345 nginx on 1.8 Start the server /etc/init.d/php_cgi start 1.9 Edit default nginx.config file vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf 1.10 Include the virtual host directory at the bottom ( I know old apache habit you could of course also use the existing /etc/nginx/conf.d/virtual.conf) include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*; 1.11 And the default virtual host files sudo mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-enabled sudo vi /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mysite # # NGINX default PHP CGI Config Fiele # server { listen 80; server_name *.mysite.com *.amazonaws.com; root /var/www/mysite; access_log /var/log/nginx/access-mysite.log main; location / { autoindex off; index index.html index.htm index.php; } location ~ \.php$ { try_files $uri =404; fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_ignore_client_abort on; fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $http_host; } } 1.12 Create a test file in the root folder set above (make sure this folder exist): sudo vi /var/www/mysite/test.php 1.13 And phpinfo for testing <?php phpinfo(); ?> 1.14 Restart nginx server sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart 1.15 By now you should be able to access the server via the public DNS, make sure to add amazonaws.com wildcard as servername to  the host file: http://ec2-122-248-220-5.ap-southeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com/test.php 2. Configure PHP 2.1 To make PHP fully run with MODX some changes in the php.ini file has to be made. sudo vi /etc/php.ini 2.2 And change the following date.timezone = Asia/Singapore 2.3 Make sure that nginx user has access to the session file or change session.save_path = "/var/lib/php/session" sudo chown nginx:nginx -R /var/lib/php/session 3. Install MYSQL-Server sudo yum install mysql mysql-server php-mysql 3.1 Start the server and set the root password sudo /etc/init.d/mysqld start mysqladmin -u root password 'new-password' 3.2 Now you should be able to connect via the root user and the new password mysql -u root -p 4. Install S3CMD 4.1 This is just a reminder as i will restore some backup files later: cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ sudo wget http://s3tools.org/repo/RHEL_6/s3tools.repo sudo yum install s3cmd 4.2 Configure S3, by setting access and secret keys. s3cmd --configure 5. Install MODX 5.1 First we will add a new virtual host file to the NGINX server, or edit the one we created earlier mysite, just make sure there are no DNS conflics. sudo vi /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mysite 5.2 Copy past the below config and change mymodx.com to your domain name. This assumes MODX will be you main root web  *.mymodx.com // 5.3 Create the modx database mysql -u root -p mysql> create database mymodx; 5.4 Now we can copy the latest backup of our MODX web application from S3 storage or install a fresh version and make sure nginx user has read/write access: wget http://modx.com/download/direct/modx-2.2.0-pl2.zip unzip ./modx-2.2.0-pl2.zip  sudo mv ./modx-2.2.0-pl2 /var/www/mymodx sudo chown nginx:nginx -R /var/www/mydox 5.5 And run the setup http://mysite.com/setup/ 6. Install WordPress 6.1 This is almost the same sa MODX, just make sure to change the host file sudo vi /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/wp // 6. Install Redmine I just had to install ruby as I restored, my previous Redmine version. Check this for a full Installation guide for Redmine RubyGems . sudo vi /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/redmine //

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