Install Silex on Debian Wheezy

In this article we will show you how to install Silex via composer on Debian Wheezy VPS with PHP-FPM and Nginx .  Silex is a PHP micro-framework based on the Symfony2 Components and Pimple. Silex is an open source product licensed under a MIT License and developed by Fabien Potencier, the creator of the Symfony framework.

Install Nginx and PHP-FPM and Git

apt-get install nginx php5-fpm php5-cli php5-gd php5-mcrypt git

Install Composer (tool for dependency management in PHP

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Create a root directory for your project and clone Silex-Skeleton

mkdir -p /var/www/yourwebsite.dev/{public_html,logs}
cd /var/www/yourwebsite.dev/public_html

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/silexphp/Silex-Skeleton.git .

and run

composer install

to install all dependencies.

Run the following command to change the ownership of the cache directory

chown -R www-data: /var/www/yourwebsite.dev/public_html/var/cache/

Nginx configuration.

Create a new Nginx server block with the following content

# /etc/nginx/sites-available/yourwebsite.dev
server {
  server_name yourwebsite.dev;
  listen 80;
  root /var/www/yourwebsite.dev/public_html;
  access_log /var/www/yourwebsite.dev/logs/access.log;
  error_log /var/www/yourwebsite.dev/logs/error.log;
  index index.html index.php;
  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrites;
  }
  location @rewrites {
    #rewrite ^ /index.php last;
    rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?url=$1 last;
  }
  location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html)$ {
    access_log off;
    expires max;
  }
  location ~ /\.ht {
    deny  all;
  }
  location ~ \.php {
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
  }
}

Symlink it and restart the server

ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/yourwebsite.dev /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yourwebsite.dev
/etc/init.d/nginx restart

Finally, open your browser and navigate to your domain. If everything goes well, you should see something similar to this:

Welcome to your new Silex Application!

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