Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

Building PHP

Once you have installed all of the dependencies, you may start building PHP. As with other applications and libraries that were previously installed, you will basically need three commands: configure, make, and make install. Be aware that this will install a new instance of the application. If you already have PHP set up on your system, the new instance will not override it, but instead will be installed in a different location that is revealed to you during the make install command execution.

The first step (configure) is critical here as you will need to enable the PHP-FPM options in order for PHP to include the required functionality. There are numerous configuration arguments that you can pass to the configure command; some ...