How to Host PHP on DigitalOcean

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How to Host PHP on DigitalOcean

How to Host PHP on DigitalOcean

If you’re looking to host PHP on DigitalOcean, look no further. With DigitalOcean’s managed hosting services, it’s easy to get set up and running in no time.

Here’s a step-by-step guide for how to host PHP on DigitalOcean:

1. Sign up for a DigitalOcean account if you don’t already have one.

2. Once you’ve created your account, select the Droplet plan that best suits your needs. The smallest plan includes 1GB of RAM, 25GB SSD storage and 1 CPU Core – perfect for hosting PHP.

3. When creating the Droplet, be sure to choose a Linux distribution that supports PHP, such as Ubuntu or Debian.

4. Once your Droplet is created, it will begin to install the necessary software packages and configure the system for you. You can check the progress of this process in the DigitalOcean interface.

5. Once completed, connect to your new server via SSH and install PHP. For Ubuntu or Debian-based systems, this can be done by running the following command: sudo apt-get install php

6. After installing PHP, you can also install additional components like a web server (Apache or Nginx), database server (MySQL), and scripting language interpreter (PHP).

7. Make sure to secure your server by creating a new user, setting up a firewall and configuring the web server properly. You can find instructions on these steps in our Knowledge Base.

8. Finally, once everything is configured correctly, you should be able to see your website or applications running on your DigitalOcean Droplet!

Looking to host your PHP application on DigitalOcean? Look no further! In this guide, we’ll show you how to get your PHP app up and running on a DigitalOcean server.

We’ll start by creating a droplet – DigitalOcean’s term for a virtual private server. Then, we’ll install all of the necessary components to run a PHP application on our droplet. Finally, we’ll deploy a sample PHP application to test that everything is working as expected.

Creating a Droplet

The first step is to create a droplet. For this guide, we’ll be using the Ubuntu 16.04 operating system.

You can either create a droplet from the Ubuntu 16.04 image (found in the “Images” tab) or select it as the operating system when you create a new droplet from the “Droplets” tab.

Once your droplet has been created, you’ll need to SSH into it. To do this, you’ll need to use a terminal program like PuTTY (for Windows) or the terminal (for macOS and Linux).

In the “Droplets” tab of the DigitalOcean control panel, click on the droplet you just created and then click the “Console” button. This will open up a new window with the SSH command that you’ll need to use to connect to your droplet.

Copy the SSH command and then launch your terminal program. Paste the SSH command into the terminal and press Enter. You may be prompted to enter your DigitalOcean account password.

Once you’re logged into your droplet, you can move on to the next step.

Installing the Necessary Components

Now that we’re logged into our droplet, we can install all of the necessary components to run a PHP application.

The first thing we need to do is update the package list for aptitude, DigitalOcean’s package manager. We can do this by running the following command:

sudo apt-get update

Now that the package list is up to date, we can install PHP. We’ll also install some common PHP extensions that are used by many applications. Run the following command to install PHP and the extensions:

sudo apt-get install php php-cli php-fpm php-curl php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-xml php-xmlrpc

We also need to install a web server. For this guide, we’ll be using nginx. Run the following command to install nginx:

sudo apt-get install nginx

Now that all of the necessary components are installed, we can move on to configuring our web server.

Configuring nginx

The first thing we need to do is create a new server block for our PHP application. Server blocks are used to specify the configuration for individual websites that are hosted on a server.

We can create a new server block file by running the following command:

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/your-domain.com

Replace “your-domain.com” with the actual domain name that you’ll be using for your PHP application.

Paste the following code into the file, making sure to replace “your-domain.com” with your domain name:

server {

listen 80;

listen [::]:80;

server_name your-domain.com;

root /var/www/your-domain.com;

index index.php;

location / {

try_