This tells Nginx that files located anywhere under the Web root and which end in .php should be passed with FastCGI through the socket at /var/run/php5-fpm, which is where the php5-fpm processes ...

Hestia is a web-based GUI for configuring NGINX, Apache, and PHP-FPM. Jack Wallen shows you how to get this up and running on Ubuntu Server 20.04.

How to setup Nginx, PHP and PHP-FPM. To setup and configure fastCGI (FPM), PHP, and Nginx on Ubuntu Linux, follow these steps: Perform an apt-get update to ensure access to the latest packages.

I want to walk you through the process of installing PHP-FPM and then enabling it in your NGINX sites. It’s not quite as simple as it is with Apache, but it shouldn’t be much of a challenge ...