Install using composer on CentOS

This guide will explain how to setup application on CentOS.

Prerequisite

In order to install PHP and server we first need to install EPEL repository which contains additional softwares for the centOS.

sudo yum install epel-release

Install NGINX

Execute below command to install NGINX. NGINX is server which will serve our application from browser or any other tool.

sudo yum install nginx

Check nginx has been installed and its running.

sudo systemctl start nginx

Install PHP

To install PHP we first need to install REMI repository which contains all PHP versions.

Install REMI repository by executing below command:

sudo yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

Now enable repo

yum --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="remi-safe"
sudo yum-config-manager --enable remi-php74

Install PHP

sudo yum install php php-fpm php-cli php-curl php-mysql php-curl php-gd php-mbstring php-pear

Install composer

Download installer:

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"

Verify installer. To verify installer we will first fetch latest signature and store it in variable.

HASH="$(wget -q -O - https://composer.github.io/installer.sig)"

Now run below command to check if the installer is not corrupted.

php -r "if (hash_file('SHA384', 'composer-setup.php') === '$HASH') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"

Install

sudo php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

Confirm composer has been installed.

composer

Install application

1. Go to /var/www directory. If www does not exists then create it using below command

cd /var
sudo mkdir www
sudo chmod 777 www

2. Now we will install application in above directory.

composer create-project nishchay/nishchay nishchayApp

Wait for installation to complete. It will ask for your name and application, enter details when it prompts.

Create site

Let's create site for our application.

1. Go to /etc/nginx/conf.d by executing cd /etc/nginx/conf.d.
2. Execute sudo touch nishchay-app.conf.
3. Execute sudo vim nishchay-app.conf.

This will open editor in terminal window, Paste below code:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name app.nishchay.local;
    root   '/var/www/nishchayApp/public';
    index index.php;

    add_header X-Frame-Options DENY;
    add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
    add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;

    charset utf-8;
    add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*' always;

    location / {
        if ($request_method = 'POST|GET|PUT|DELETE') {
                add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*' always;
        }

        index  index.html index.php;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        fastcgi_params;
    }

    # prevent nginx from serving dotfiles (.htaccess, .svn, .git, etc.)
    location ~ /\. {
        deny all;
        access_log off;
        log_not_found off;
    }

}

If installed PHP version is different then edit this line in above configuration as per installed php version:

fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;

To save file

1. Press escape.
2. Type :wq and press enter.

Check site configuration is correct

Execute below command which will check if nginx files are correct or not.

sudo nginx -t

If You receive any error, please correct it and save it then check again by executing above command.

Restart NGINX

To restart NGINX server execute below command:

systemctl restart nginx

Add host entry

Execute below command to open editor in terminal

sudo vim /etc/hosts

Add below line at the end

127.0.0.1   app.nishchay.local

Check if it's working now

1. Open browser.
2. Visit http://app.nishchay.local
3. You should see application welcome page.