{"id":1894,"date":"2015-08-21T11:18:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T10:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/denbeke.be\/blog\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2016-02-02T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T17:48:00","slug":"caddy-server-and-wordpress-php-fpm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denbeke.be\/blog\/servers\/caddy-server-and-wordpress-php-fpm\/","title":{"rendered":"Caddy Server and WordPress (PHP-FPM)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Caddy<\/a><\/p>\n

Update:<\/span>\u00a0I added rewrite rules for WordPress permalinks to the Caddyfile. I also removed all unnecessary bits which are not needed anymore since Caddy now has built-in HTTPS support with\u00a0Let’s Encrypt<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Recently I discovered an amazing open source project: Caddy<\/a>, a fully functional HTTP\/2 webserver, written in Go.<\/p>\n

Caddy is a lightweight, general-purpose web server for Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, and\u00a0Android<\/a>. It is a capable alternative to other popular and easy to use web servers.<\/em><\/p>\n

The most notable features are HTTP\/2, Virtual Hosts, TLS + SNI, and easy configuration with a\u00a0Caddyfile<\/a>. Usually, you have one Caddyfile per site. Most directives for the Caddyfile invoke a layer of middleware which can be\u00a0used in your own Go programs<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In this tutorial I will explain how to run\u00a0WordPress<\/a> with Caddy server (on Ubuntu), using Caddy’s FastCGI support and PHP-FPM<\/a> (i.e. PHP FastCGI Process Manager). Of course you also need MySQL\/MariaDB to run WordPress.<\/p>\n

MySQL<\/h3>\n

I assume that you have a MySQL server up and running\u00a0(or that you have the knowledge to do so) .<\/p>\n

PHP<\/h3>\n

Install PHP-FPM:<\/p>\n

$ sudo apt-get install php5-fpm<\/code><\/pre>\n
PHP-FPM listens to FastCGI requests on a unix socket by default (on Ubuntu and Arch Linux):\u00a0unix:\/var\/run\/php5-fpm.sock<\/code> (or unix:\/var\/run\/php\/php7.0-fpm.sock<\/code> for PHP 7). So we’ll\u00a0have to tell the webserver to pass the PHP requests to it.<\/p>\n
You could also use a regular UDP socket if you want: change listen<\/code> in\u00a0\/etc\/php5\/fpm\/pool.d\/www.conf<\/code> to 127.0.0.1:9000<\/code>. On some operating systems (e.g. FreeBSD), PHP-FPM listens on this UDP socket by default.<\/p>\n
Caddyfile<\/h3>\n
Now we need to configure Caddy so it will use PHP-FPM.\u00a0We also need to specify virtual hosts for the domain(s) we will be using.<\/p>\n
The following Caddyfile contains everything you need to run WordPress with PHP-FPM on HTTP\/2.<\/p>\n
www.my-wordpress-blog.com {\r\n    redir https:\/\/my-wordpress-blog.com{uri}\r\n}\r\n\r\nmy-wordpress-blog.com {\r\n    root wordpress\r\n    log access.log\r\n    errors error.log\r\n    \r\n    # PHP-FPM with Unix socket\r\n    fastcgi \/ \/var\/run\/php5-fpm.sock php\r\n    \r\n    # PHP-FPM with regular udp socket\r\n    # fastcgi \/ 127.0.0.1:9000 php\r\n\r\n    # Routing for WordPress\r\n    rewrite \/{\r\n        to {path} {path}\/ \/index.php?{query}\r\n    }\r\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n
Caddy will use the wordpress<\/code> folder as document root, and will pass all PHP requests to a FastCGI process (which is the PHP-FPM process). It will also automatically install SSL certificates (from Let’s Encrypt) and serve the website over HTTPS. HTTP requests will be redirected to the HTTPS domain.<\/p>\n
The Caddy documentation<\/a> contains more detailed information on the available directives. Checkout my other blogposts if you need help\u00a0Running Caddy Server as a service<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Creating a self-signed certificate<\/a>.<\/p>\n
WordPress<\/h3>\n
Now it’s time to install WordPress. Simple download WordPress and copy the files to\u00a0the wordpress<\/code> folder. To install WordPress you can just follow the steps on the screen like any other easy WordPress configuration.<\/p>\n
If you want to use HTTP\/2, you should configure WordPress with HTTPS enabled. You can do this in Settings<\/em>, General<\/em>: change http<\/code> in the urls to https<\/code>.
\nMost browsers only speak HTTP\/2 when using TLS. Although TLS only is not marked as mandatory in the RFC 7540<\/a>,\u00a0Firefox and Chrome development teams have no actual\u00a0intents to implement HTTP\/2 without\u00a0TLS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Update:\u00a0I added rewrite rules for WordPress permalinks to the Caddyfile. I also removed all unnecessary bits which are not needed anymore since Caddy now has built-in HTTPS support with\u00a0Let’s Encrypt. Recently I discovered an amazing open source project: Caddy, a fully functional HTTP\/2 webserver, written in Go. 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