My Ubuntu Server: Install php-fpm

Updated on: 5.Dec.2020

sudo apt install software-properties-common

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

sudo apt update

sudo apt install php7.3-fpm

After installation completed, you have to edit Nginx site configuration. Click here to view the configuration.

Assign permission for current user, without this, might get permission issue when php trying to access the directory.

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /var/www/your_domain

To test if the PHP page is working, you have to create a test page and then load it in the browser.

sudo nano /var/www/myweb.com/html/info.php

File contents:

<?php

phpinfo();

sudo systemctl status php7.3-fpm

sudo apt-get install php7.3-sqlite

After that, enable any extension by editing the PHP configuration,

sudo nano /etc/php/7.3/fpm/php.ini

Note: if you installed version other than 7.3, please change it to the correct path.

In nano editor, press CTRL+w to search text. Type "pdo_sqlite". Then, uncomment (remove the ";" symbol) that line and save it.

....

;extension=pdo_pgsql

    extension=pdo_sqlite
    ;extension=pgsql
     ....

sudo systemctl restart nginx

sudo systemctl restart php7.3-fpm

# restart PHP service - in case any error, you will find it in syslog

sudo systemctl restart php7.3-fpm

# look for the last few logs

tail /var/log/syslog

For example, you found the following error appear in syslog:

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'pdo_sqlite'
PHP Warning: Module 'sqlite3' already loaded

This means that Sqlite extension has already been loaded as per the setting in the following directory:

ls /etc/php/7.3/fpm/conf.d

To resolve this issue, you have to disable Sqlite extension in php.ini

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt install php7.3

sudo apt purge --auto-remove php7.2-fpm

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My Ubuntu Server