Adding documentation for installing HHVM with nginx on Linux

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* [Install using Apache](webserver) - our preferred platform
* [Install using Lighttpd](lighttpd) - fast, but a bit tricker to get going
* [Install using Nginx](nginx) - Super fast at serving static files. Great for large traffic sites.
* [Install using nginx and HHVM](nginx-hhvm) - nginx and [HHVM](http://hhvm.com/) as a faster alternative to PHP
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# nginx and HHVM
[HHVM](http://hhvm.com/) is a faster alternative to PHP, in that it runs in a virtual machine
and uses just-in-time (JIT) compilation to achieve better performance over standard PHP.
Installation on Debian or Ubuntu is relatively straightforward, in that HHVM already provide
packages available to use:
Debian 7 (wheezy):
wget -O - http://dl.hhvm.com/conf/hhvm.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
echo deb http://dl.hhvm.com/debian wheezy main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hhvm.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install hhvm
Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty):
wget -O - http://dl.hhvm.com/conf/hhvm.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
echo deb http://dl.hhvm.com/ubuntu trusty main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hhvm.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install hhvm
Please see [Prebuilt Packages for HHVM on HHVM wiki](https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/wiki/Prebuilt%20Packages%20for%20HHVM) for more ways to install.
Assuming you already have nginx installed, you can then run a script to enable support for
nginx and/or apache2 depending on whether they are installed or not:
/usr/share/hhvm/install_fastcgi.sh
For nginx, this will place a file at `/etc/nginx/hhvm.conf` which you can use to include in
your nginx server definitions to provide support for php requests.
In order to get SilverStripe working, you need to create a custom configuration file.
In your `/etc/nginx/silverstripe.conf`, add this configuration:
fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;
fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 64k;
fastcgi_buffers 4 32k;
location / {
try_files $uri /framework/main.php?url=$uri&$query_string;
}
error_page 404 /assets/error-404.html;
error_page 500 /assets/error-500.html;
location ^~ /assets/ {
sendfile on;
try_files $uri =404;
}
location ~ /(mysite|framework|cms)/.*\.(php|php3|php4|php5|phtml|inc)$ {
deny all;
}
location ~ /\.. {
deny all;
}
location ~ \.ss$ {
satisfy any;
allow 127.0.0.1;
deny all;
}
location ~ web\.config$ {
deny all;
}
location ~ \.ya?ml$ {
deny all;
}
location ^~ /vendor/ {
deny all;
}
location ~* /silverstripe-cache/ {
deny all;
}
location ~* composer\.(json|lock)$ {
deny all;
}
location ~* /(cms|framework)/silverstripe_version$ {
deny all;
}
The above script passes all non-static file requests to `/framework/main.php` in the webroot which relies on
`hhvm.conf` being included prior so that php requests are handled.
Now in your nginx `server` configuration you can then include the `hhvm.conf` and `silverstripe.conf` files
to complete the configuration required for PHP/HHVM and SilverStripe.
e.g. `/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/mysite`:
server {
listen 80;
root /var/www/mysite;
server_name www.mysite.com;
error_log /var/log/nginx/mysite.error.log;
access_log /var/log/nginx/mysite.access.log;
include /etc/nginx/hhvm.conf;
include /etc/nginx/silverstripe.conf;
}
For more information on nginx configuration, please see the [nginx installation](nginx) page.