Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

Post-install configuration

Begin by configuring your newly installed PHP, for example, by copying the php.ini of your previous setup over the new one.

Due to the way Nginx forwards script files and request information to PHP, a security breach might be caused by the use of the cgi.fix_pathinfo=1 configuration option. It is highly recommended that you set this option to 0 in your php.ini file. For more information about this particular security issue, please consult the following article: http://cnedelcu.blogspot.in/2010/05/nginx-php-via-fastcgi-important.html

The next step is to configure PHP-FPM. Open up the php-fpm.conf file, which is located in /usr/local/php/etc/ by default. We cannot detail all aspects of the PHP-FPM configuration here ...