Virtualmin Tips & Hacks | How to Setup, Integrate and Automate PHP-FPM & Nginx Reverse Proxy in Virtualmin Practical Full Guide
Chapter 1: Installing the Software If you have just installed Virtualmin on a stock server or VPS, you're probably running CentOS 6 at the time of this writing (October 2014). CentOS 7 has just been released recently, and Virtualmin support for it is not as matured or stable compared to CentOS 6 CentOS 6.5 (and 6.6) ships with the following default software: PHP 5.3.3 (this version of PHP has reached its end of life and is no longer supported by the PHP team) MySQL 5.1.73 (a very old version of MySQL server. Current stable version is MySQL 5.5) Apache 2.2.15 (although aged, it is considered one of the most stable version of Apache ever released. The RedHat/CentOS team is still actively maintaining it) For the purpose of this book, we will be updating PHP to the latest stable 5.4 and upgrading the aged MySQL server to the current 5.5 from the “EPEL” and “REMI” repositories. We will also install “mod_fastcgi” which is required for Apache to “communi