Install & Setup PHP and Nginx on Ubuntu Linux with FPM

Need to quickly setup PHP on Nginx and configure your web server to it can interpret files written in PHP in Nginx? It’s not that hard, especially if you’re using Ubuntu Linux. In this tutorial, Nginx and PHP is configured to work together by first installing Nginx on Ubunu, PHP fastCGI process manager second, and then editing the default Nginx config file for PHP support. The versions used in this tutorial are Ubuntu 20, Nginx 1.18 PHP 8.1, & php-fpm 8.1, although all of these Nginx PHP configuration options will work with other versions of Nginx and PHP on Ubuntu Linux. These are simply the most up to date versions of PHP, Nginx & Ubuntu with PHP FPM at the time this example tutorial was recorded.