How to configure PHP with Nginx webserver on Mac OS X

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Published by Igor Khrupin on 12 November, 2017

Before starting installation PHP-FPM and configurations you should have Nginx installed and configured. If you don’t have it ready please follow my previous post about installing and configuring Nginx on Mac OS X. Here is the link https://www.hrupin.com/2017/11/how-to-install-nginx-webserver-on-mac-os-x So, here we have installed and configured NGinx. Let’s install and configure PHP-FPM. Here is step by step instructions

Install php71 using Homebrew

brew tap homebrew/dupes
brew tap homebrew/php
brew search php
brew install php71 --without-apache --with-fpm

Setup automatic launch php after mac start

mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents
cp /usr/local/opt/php71/homebrew.mxcl.php71.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.php71.plist

Edit /usr/local/etc/php/7.1/php.ini and replace
```
;cgi.fix_pathinfo=1
```
with next string
```
cgi.fix_pathinfo=0
```
Edit /usr/local/etc/php/7.1/php-fpm.d/www.conf file and put there your username and group. You need find next lines and edit them like next. Please replace YOUR_USERNAME with your username and YOUR_GROUP with name of your group
```
user = YOUR_USERNAME
group = YOUR_GROUP
```

Next we need edit default virtualhost and add make it look like this

server {
    listen   80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
    listen   [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6

    server_name  localhost;
    
    root       /var/www/localhost;

    index index.php index.html index.htm;
 
    access_log  /usr/local/etc/nginx/logs/default.access.log;
    error_log  /usr/local/etc/nginx/logs/default.error.log;
 
    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files      $uri = 404;
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        fastcgi_params;
    }

    error_page  404     /404.html;
    error_page  403     /403.html;
}

Install mcrypt
```
sudo brew install php71-mcrypt
```
Prepare test web content. Create file /var/www/localhost/info.php with next content
```
<?php
    phpinfo();
?>
```

Save all files and restart PHP

sudo brew services stop php71
sudo brew services start php71

Restart Nginx
```
sudo nginx -s stop
sudo nginx
```
Check how Nginx works
```
curl -IL http://localhost/info.php
```

Output should be like this

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.12.1
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 22:01:37 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: keep-alive
X-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.11

Also you can run http://localhost/info.php in your browser and you should see phpinfo table like this

Now Nginx able to work with PHP