After so many days we have talked about setting up Nginx, PHP-FPM, MariaDB and some PHP caching. We can now try to run a Drupal instance on them. Before we starts, let me listed out all the previous posts.

• Nginx – Installation on Ubuntu Precise
• Nginx + PHP-FPM on Ubuntu Precise
• Nginx – Enable Microcaching
• MariaDB – Installation on Ubuntu Precise
• Run phpMyAdmin on Nginx in Ubuntu Precise
• Ubuntu – Install APC with PHP-FPM and Nginx
• Ubuntu – Install Memcached with PHP-FPM and Nginx

It’s time to start the Drupal installation.

1. Go to the /srv folder and download the latest Drupal core.

• cd /srv
• wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drupal-7.19.tar.gz

2. Extract the archive.

• tar zxf drupal-7.19.tar.gz

3. Rename the folder to a proper name. In this post, we rename it to drupal.

• mv drupal-7.19 drupal

4. Create a new database through phpMyAdmin.
 

5. Create a new Nginx VirtualHost setting as follow.
/etc/nginx/sites-available/drupal

server {
  listen   80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
  #listen   [::]:80 default ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6

  server_name <your domain>;
  root /srv/drupal;
  index index.php;
  
  # Log
  access_log /var/log/nginx/drupal.access.log;
  error_log  /var/log/nginx/drupal.error.log info;
  
  location = /favicon.ico {
    log_not_found off;
    access_log off;
  }

  location = /robots.txt {
    allow all;
    log_not_found off;
    access_log off;
  }

  # This matters if you use drush
  location = /backup {
    deny all;
  }

  # Very rarely should these ever be accessed outside of your lan
  location ~* \.(txt|log)$ {
    allow 127.0.0.1;
    deny all;
  }

  location ~ \..*/.*\.php$ {
    return 403;
  }

  location / {
    # This is cool because no php is touched for static content
    try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrite;
    expires max;
  }

  location @rewrite {
    # Some modules enforce no slash (/) at the end of the URL
    # Else this rewrite block wouldn't be needed (GlobalRedirect)
    rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1;
  }
  
  location ~ \.php$ {
    # Setup var defaults
    set $no_cache "";
    # If non GET/HEAD, don't cache and mark user as uncacheable for 1 second via cookie
    if ($request_method !~ ^(GET|HEAD)$) {
      set $no_cache "1";
    }
    # Drop no cache cookie if need be
    # (for some reason, add_header fails if included in prior if-block)
    if ($no_cache = "1") {
      add_header Set-Cookie "_mcnc=1; Max-Age=2; Path=/";
      add_header X-Microcachable "0";
    }
    # Bypass cache if no-cache cookie is set
    if ($http_cookie ~* "_mcnc") {
      set $no_cache "1";
    }
    # Bypass cache if flag is set
    fastcgi_no_cache $no_cache;
    fastcgi_cache_bypass $no_cache;
    
    # Settings
    fastcgi_cache microcache;
    fastcgi_cache_key $server_name|$request_uri;
    fastcgi_cache_valid 404 30m;
    fastcgi_cache_valid 200 10s;
    fastcgi_max_temp_file_size 1M;
    fastcgi_cache_use_stale updating;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_pass_header Set-Cookie;
    fastcgi_pass_header Cookie;
    fastcgi_ignore_headers Cache-Control Expires Set-Cookie;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
    fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
    #fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$fastcgi_path_info;
    #fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
    include fastcgi_params;
  }
}

6. Restart Nginx.

• /etc/init.d/nginx restart

7. Continue the installation by accessing the URL with browser.

 

Done =)

Reference:

• Linux – How to configure NGINX + PHP-FPM + Drupal 7.0
• Building Nginx (Microcaching) + MariaDB/MySQL + PHP-FPM + Debian 6 + APC + Memcache + Drupal 7 server

Update @ 20130223: I found that a few days after the above setup, the following error occurred.

I am not sure why the mysqld.sock was gone. I restarted the server but the same problem occurred again after a while.

Finally, i solved the problem by the solution suggested in the post below.
StackOverflow – Getting “Can’t connect…through socket ‘/tmp/mysql’” when installing MySQL on Mac OS X 10.6 with Homebrew