Install WordPress with EasyEngine 3.8 on Ubuntu 18.04 and Enable PHP 7.2

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Easy Engine = Easy wordpress on Nginx
The above equation tells everything about easy engine. However I will make it a little bit clearer, easy engine is a shell script in Linux that makes it easy for installation and management of WordPress sites on Nginx (pronounced as engine-x). Nginx is a fast, lightweight, and open source web server that doubles up as a reverse proxy and load balancer. It is gaining popularity amongst most production servers.
Here I will show you how to host a wordpress site with easy engine and how to enable PHP v7.2 on easy engine. I am running all command as root user.

Step 1:

Install easyengine on your machine:

 apt update wget -qO ee rt.cx/ee && bash ee 

After the installation, we need to apply the bash auto-completion for EasyEngine ee command.
Run the following command.

 source /etc/bash_completion.d/ee_auto.rc 

Now easy engine is installed and we can create and manage our sites using the "ee" command.

Step 2:

Creating a simple html site with easy engine:

 ee site create  

Installing WordPress with Basic Configuration:

 ee site create  --wp 

When it is completed you will get details of your wordpress site including WordPress admin user and password.
You will get the details like document root, log file locations and database details by running the following command:

 ee site info  

EasyEngine provides automatic WordPress cache settings for the following software:

--wpfc: Nginx Cache

--w3tc: W3 Total Cache

--wpsc: WP Super Cache

--wpredis: WP Redis Cache

Install WordPress with Cache Settings:

ee site create  --wpfc

Install WordPress with PHP 7.0:

ee site create  --wpfc --php7

To install Wordpress with PHP 7.0, WordPress Cache, and SSL:

ee site create  --wpfc --php7 --letsencrypt

Step 3:

If you want to setup SSL on an existing site:

ee site update  --letsencrypt

If you get any error in this step refer step 5.
In case you want to change the wordpress admin password use the below command:

ee site update --password

Step 4:

Additional SSL Configuration

cd /var/www/your_domain/nginx
vi ssl.conf

Add the 'ssl_ciphers' configuration:

ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH';

Restart the EasyEngine stack:

ee stack restart

Step 5:

If step 3 works well with your setup please avoid this step.
Adding SSL normally:

git clone https ://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt && cd letsencrypt

./letsencrypt-auto -d 

Enabling PHP 7.2 on EasyEngine:

Add php7.2 repository:

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
apt update

Install php7.2-fpm and other necessary packages:

apt install php7.2-common php7.2-cli php7.2-zip php7.2-opcache php7.2-mysql php7.2-mbstring php7.2-json php7.2-intl php7.2-gd php7.2-fpm php7.2-curl php7.2-bz2 php7.2-bcmath php7.2-imap php7.2-recode php7.2-soap php7.2-xml php7.2-imagick php7.2-memcache php7.2-memcached php7.2-igbinary php7.2-msgpack php7.2-redis

Copy the php7.2-fpm pool configuration from php7.0-fpm:

cp -f /etc/php/7.0/fpm/pool.d/www.conf /etc/php/7.2/fpm/pool.d/www.conf

Edit the listening port of php7.2-fpm

vi /etc/php/7.2/fpm/pool.d/www.conf

Change the line

 listen = 127.0.0.1:9070 

to

 listen = 127.0.0.1:9090 

Restart php-fpm service:

service php7.2-fpm restart

Then to use php7.2-fpm, replace globally php7.0-fpm with php7.2-fpm

vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/upstream.conf

Replace the line

 server 127.0.0.1:9070; 

by

 server 127.0.0.1:9090; 

Then reload nginx:

service nginx restart

Then make a php72 configuration file in nginx folder:

cp /etc/nginx/common/php7.conf /etc/nginx/common/php72.conf

Replace the line

 fastcgi_pass php7; 

by

 fastcgi_pass php72; 

Replace the line

 include common/php7.conf; 

by

 include common/php72.conf; 

in the site configuration file.
Reload nginx:

service nginx restart

December 11, 2018

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