Configure Phalcon in Nginx Server on Ubuntu 20.04

In this guide, you’ll learn how to install Nginx on your Ubuntu 20.04 server and Configure it with Phalcon and Phalcon Project.

What is Nginx?

Nginx is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Unlike traditional servers, Nginx doesn’t rely on threads to handle requests. Instead, it uses a much more scalable event-driven (asynchronous) architecture. This architecture uses small, but more importantly, predictable amounts of memory under load.

INSTALL NGINX SERVER ON UBUNTU

Install Nginx

Launch the Terminal by using the Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut and execute the following command:

**Step 1: Update Packages **

sudo apt update

Step 2: Install Nginx Server

In the next step, we install the Nginx server. execute the below command.

sudo apt install nginx

Checking Nginx Server

At the end of the installation process, Ubuntu 20.04 starts Nginx. The web server should already be up and running.

Step 1: Check the Nginx Status

Check the status to execute the below command

sudo systemctl status nginx

This output shows that the service has started successfully. However, the best way to test this is to actually request a page from Nginx.

You can access the default Nginx landing page to confirm that the software is running properly by navigating to your server’s IP address. If you do not know your server’s IP address, you can get it a few different ways.

Nginx Server Managing Commands

Now that you have your web server up and running, let’s review some basic management commands

INSTALL PHP AND MODULES VERSION 7.4

Now we need to install PHP 7.4 version for the support of Phalcon-4.1.2v. (Stable Version)

Step 1: Install PHP-7.4 Version and Modules

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install software-properties-common

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php

sudo apt update

sudo apt install -y php7.4

#Other Additional Packages
sudo apt install php7.4-curl php7.4-gd php7.4-json php7.4-mbstring

sudo apt install php7.4-zip php7.4-fpm php7.4-cli php7.4-dev 

sudo apt install libpcre3-dev php7.4-xml php7.4-mysql

sudo apt install php7.4-imagick

sudo apt install php7.4-mysql php7.4-pgsql

Note: We need to PSR Module to run phalcon module.

Step 2: Install PSR Extension

sudo apt install php7.4-psr

Step 3: Enable FPM in Nginx

To enable PHP 7.4 FPM in Nginx do this command

sudo a2enconf php7.4-fpm

sudo systemctl restart nginx

To Compile Phalcon Framework we need to install gcc package

sudo apt install gcc

INSTALL PHALCON ON UBUNTU

Install phalcon stable version-4.1.2

Download Phalcon-4.1.2-Stable Release ⬇️

** Install Phalcon module to execute these commands:**

Before that extract and unzip the folder and Move to Home in File Explorer.

Install Stable Repository Distribution

Stable release

curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/phalcon/stable/script.deb.sh | sudo bash

Compile Phalcon Module

cd cphalcon-4.1.2/build
sudo ./install

After Successful Installation Execute Server Start Command

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Load the Phalcon Extension Web Server Create a file called 30-phalcon.ini in this 2 Places

☄️ /etc/php/php7.4/fpm/conf.d/

☄️ /etc/php/php7.4/cli/conf.d/

add this content

extension=phalcon.so

Run this command to FPM Server Restart

sudo service php7.4-fpm restart

Find all PHP Modules in Single Command

php -m

#Check Phalcon is installed or not
php -m | grep phalcon

Phalcon Successfully configured with Nginx

References ⬇️

Configure Phalcon Project with Nginx

The Basic Structure of Phalcon Project

phalcon/
  app/
    controllers/
    models/
    views/
  public/
    css/
    img/
    js/
    index.php

Create a project /var/www/ directory.

Example : /var/www/phalcon/

Next, assign ownership of the directory with the $USER environment variable:

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

The permissions we need to webroot are also confirmed with this command.

sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/phalcon

Create Server Block in Server

To create a configuration file /etc/nginx/sites-available/ in this path ⬇️

Enable the Nginx Server

To enable the file creating the link in Nginx Server.

Execute this command:

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/phalcon.conf  /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

sudo systemctl reload nginx

Phalcon Project Successfully configured with Nginx Server Now run the project in the browser

References ⬇️

🔗 - docs.w3cub.com

Note :

I faced an issue with the latest version of PHP, so going especially for 7.4 which is best compatible with the release.

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