web server

Another good option to run Drupal sites nowadays is Nginx. Nginx is a Proxy/Web Server not as complex as Apache and is well known for is security, responsiveness and speed when handling PHP apps together with PHP-FMP. On this this post I will introduce you on how to manually install and run Nginx and PHP-FPM so you can host any Drupal site with SSL support.

Recommended posts:

The suggested installation instructions by drupal.org: https://www.drupal.org/node/2310819
Perusio Nginx suggested Drupal Configuration https://github.com/perusio/drupal-with-nginx/tree/D7#installation
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The reason for this blog is to create a guide on how to install Drupal on a Linux Server ( I choose Ubuntu 10.04 amd64 LTS but any Linux distro will work just fine) but instead of using all the PHP packages bundled with this Linux distribution we will be using Zend Server which is an Application Sever built for  PHP by Zend.

So, once you have set up Ubuntu, let's login as the root user typing the following command:
    
    $ sudo -s

cool , now that we have all the privileges, let's add the Zend Server repository to our sources list by typing:
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