Warning: this post is old and might not reflect the current state of the art
I’ll cover installing PHP on OSX via Homebrew on Nginx and PHP-FPM.
Homebrew is the best package manager for OSX and it will help keeping everything up to date.
Install Homebrew
First install it if you don’t have it installed.
Install Nginx
In the terminal type
brew install nginx
The default settings are:
Config: /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
Servers info: /usr/local/etc/nginx/servers/
Docroot: /usr/local/var/www
Port: 8080
Add it to the Launch Agents to be started when starting up the system:
ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/nginx/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
Now launch it
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist
All should be fine.
Add this to /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf. Make sure to change /Users/flavio/www to your sites root folder. This allows access to all the sites, which will be accessible via subfolders.
#user nobody;
worker_processes 1;
#error_log logs/error.log;
#error_log logs/error.log notice;
#error_log logs/error.log info;
#pid logs/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
include sites-enabled/*; # load virtuals config
sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
#log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
# '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
# '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
#access_log logs/access.log main;
# gzip on;
# gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";
server {
listen 8080;
server_name localhost;
#charset koi8-r;
#access_log logs/host.access.log main;
location / {
root /Users/flavio/www;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args ;
index index.php;
#root html;
index index.html index.htm;
}
# configure *.PHP requests
location ~ \.php$ {
root /Users/flavio/www;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args ;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
include fastcgi_params;
}
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
}
Restart with sudo nginx -s reload and access http://localhost:8080/ and you should see Nginx running. PHP sites will fail at this point.
Install PHP 7
brew install php70
Add it to the Launch Agents to be started when starting up the system:
ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/php56/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
Now launch it
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.php71.plist
All should be fine.
Refresh http://localhost:8080/ and access a PHP site, PHP should be running fine!
Install Opcache
brew install php71-opcache
Install APCu
brew install php71-apcu
Allow using port 80
sudo chown root:wheel ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist
Nginx Logs
/usr/local/var/log/nginx/