NGINX, PHP and MySQL

Setup

sudo apt-get install nginx
sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client
sudo mysql_secure_installation
sudo apt-get install php5-fpm php5-cli php5-mysql

# optional
cd /etc/php5/cli
sudo mv php.ini php.ini.backup
sudo ln -s ../fpm/php.ini

Edit the config files

/etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf

user = <user>
group = <group>

listen = /tmp/php5-fpm.sock

listen.owner = <user>
listen.group = <group>
listen.mode = 0660

nginx sites-available/<file>

upstream php {
    server unix:/run/php5-fpm.sock;
}

server {
	#listen   80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
	#listen   [::]:80 default ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6

	root /home/<user>/www;
	index index.php index.html index.htm;

	# Make site accessible from http://localhost/
	server_name localhost;

	location / {
		# First attempt to serve request as file, then
		# as directory, then fall back to index.html
		try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
		# Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
		# include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
	}

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;

        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass php;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/share/nginx/www$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT /home/<user>/www;
        # factcgi_intercept_errors on;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

Restart

sudo service nginx restart
sudo service php5-fpm restart