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03 Aug 2016

I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 only to learn that it’s PHP7 now. Yes, I’m outdated. I wake up to finding my WordPress not working.

So we need to install php 7 and make some modifications.

sudo apt install php-fpm php-mysql
sudo apt install php7.0-xml

Configuring PHP7

Edit your php config file

sudo nano /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini

Change the cgi.fix_pathinfo setting to 0, you need to uncomment and change it.

cgi.fix_pathinfo=0

After doing so, you need to restart php7.0-fpm

sudo systemctl restart php7.0-fpm

Configuring nginx

sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Add the following within the http block to point to your newly installed php7.0-fpm:

  upstream php {
    server unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
  }

This is my global/wordpress.conf designed to be placed inside the individual server blocks:

# WordPress single blog rules.
# Designed to be included in any server {} block.

rewrite /wp-admin$ $scheme://$host$uri/ permanent;

# Directives to send expires headers and turn off 404 error logging.
location ~* ^.+\.(ogg|ogv|svg|svgz|eot|otf|woff|mp4|ttf|rss|atom|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|ppt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf)$ {
       access_log off; log_not_found off; expires max;
}

# Pass all .php files onto a php-fpm/php-fcgi server.
location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) {
  if (!-f $document_root$fastcgi_script_name) {
    return 404;
  }
  include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
  fastcgi_pass php;
}

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