How to enable Nginx to serve PHP code/pages in Ubuntu

[Mark Alan]

Edho P Arief wrote:

> many said "use php-fpm"

I have also read many things about php-fpm but...

- you need to check that there are php-fpm patches for the specific PHP 
version that you intend to use;
- you need to hand recompile PHP to use it,
- you need to hand customize the paths of the recompiled code
- you must comply with the awkward php-fpm license (non free/non OSI?)

And each time a new security/bug-fix release of PHP is out, you need to 
start it all over again.

We still do prefer the Ubuntu "LESS IS MORE" way of doing things:
  sudo aptitude update
  sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

...and it is done!

After a few days of tests in the sandbox servers and after checking that 
all is well, it is a simple matter of doing the same in the production 
servers.


M.