Nginx web server installation

Install required packages

Follow instructions below to setup Bacula-Web with Nginx instead of Apache www

Note

These instruction have been tested with Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial).

Download latest package lists

$ sudo apt-get update

Install Nginx and PHP-FPM

$ sudo apt-get install nginx php-fpm php-sqlite3 php-gd

If you use MySQL Bacula catalog

$ sudo apt-get install php-mysql

If you use postgreSQL Bacula catalog

$ sudo apt-get install php-pgsql

Configure PHP-FPM

Modify PHP-FPM configuration

$ sudo vim /etc/php/7.1/fpm/php.ini

cgi.fix_pathinfo=0
date.timezeone = Europe/Zurich

Restart PHP-FPM service

/etc/init.d/php7.1-fpm restart

Configure Nginx

Modify Nginx default site configuration

$ sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-enables/default

# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;

Restart Nginx to apply conifguration changes

$ sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart

Once your web server is ready, you can process with Bacula-Web installation.

You have two different options