HHVM Nginx Ubuntu with multiple Site

To run HHVM on Nginx with Ubuntu 14.04 and multiple Site per Server you can use this Howto. I work with Nginx variables, this make it easy to have short Nginx configs.

First step is to install HHVM on the server

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 0x5a16e7281be7a449
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb http://dl.hhvm.com/ubuntu trusty main'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install hhvm

Now you get the following information

********************************************************************
* HHVM is installed.
* 
* Running PHP web scripts with HHVM is done by having your webserver talk to HHVM
* over FastCGI. Install nginx or Apache, and then:
* $ sudo /usr/share/hhvm/install_fastcgi.sh
* $ sudo /etc/init.d/hhvm restart
* (if using nginx)  $ sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart
* (if using apache) $ sudo /etc/init.d/apache restart
* 
* Detailed FastCGI directions are online at:
* https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/wiki/FastCGI
* 
* If you're using HHVM to run web scripts, you probably want it to start at boot:
* $ sudo update-rc.d hhvm defaults
* 
* Running command-line scripts with HHVM requires no special setup:
* $ hhvm whatever.php
* 
* You can use HHVM for /usr/bin/php even if you have php-cli installed:
* $ sudo /usr/bin/update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/php php /usr/bin/hhvm 60
********************************************************************

Now run the install script

sudo /usr/share/hhvm/install_fastcgi.sh
sudo /usr/bin/update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/php php /usr/bin/hhvm 60

So now you have install the HHVM. Now you must setup the multiple instances.

sudo cp /etc/init.d/hhvm /etc/init.d/hhvm_www_safematix_com
sudo cp /etc/default/hhvm /etc/default/hhvm_www_safematix_com
sudo cp /etc/hhvm/server_www_canus_at.ini /etc/hhvm/server_www_safematix_com.ini

Now you must edit the configs.

/etc/init.d/hhvm_www_safematix_com

sudo vi /etc/init.d/hhvm_www_safematix_com
...
NAME=hhvm_www_safematix_com
...
PIDFILE=/var/run/hhvm/pid_$NAME

/etc/default/hhvm_www_safematix_com

## This is a configuration file for /etc/init.d/hhvm.
## Overwrite start up configuration of the hhvm service.
##
## This file is sourced by /bin/sh from /etc/init.d/hhvm.

## Configuration file location.
## Default: "/etc/hhvm/server.ini"
## Examples:
##   "/etc/hhvm/conf.d/fastcgi.ini" Load configuration file from Debian/Ubuntu conf.d style location
CONFIG_FILE="/etc/hhvm/server_www_safematix_com.ini"

## User to run the service as.
## Default: "www-data"
## Examples:
##   "hhvm"   Custom 'hhvm' user
##   "nobody" RHEL/CentOS 'www-data' equivalent
RUN_AS_USER="www_safematix_com"
RUN_AS_GROUP="www_safematix_com"

## Add additional arguments to the hhvm service start up that you can't put in CONFIG_FILE for some reason.
## Default: ""
## Examples:
##   "-vLog.Level=Debug"                Enable debug log level
##   "-vServer.DefaultDocument=app.php" Change the default document
#ADDITIONAL_ARGS=""

## PID file location.
## Default: "/var/run/hhvm/pid"
#PIDFILE="/var/run/hhvm/pid"

/etc/hhvm/server_www_safematix_com.ini

; php options

pid = /var/run/hhvm/pid_www_safematix_com

; hhvm specific 

hhvm.server.port = 9001
hhvm.server.type = fastcgi
hhvm.server.default_document = index.php
hhvm.log.use_log_file = true
hhvm.log.file = /var/log/hhvm/error_www_safematix_com.log
hhvm.repo.central.path = /var/run/hhvm/hhvm.hhbc

Now edit the nginx settings

location ~ \.(hh|php)$ {
    fastcgi_keep_conn on;
    fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:$siteport;
    fastcgi_index  index.php;
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    include        fastcgi_params;
}

vhost config

server {
	listen [2a01:4f8:210:3101::12]:443 ssl spdy;
	listen 443 ssl spdy;
	spdy_headers_comp 5;

	server_name www.safematix.com safematix.com;

	root /srv/www/www_safematix_com/htdocs;
	index index.php index.html index.htm;

	access_log   /srv/www/www_safematix_com/log/www.safematix.com_ssl.access.log;
        error_log    /srv/www/www_safematix_com/log/www.safematix.com_ssl.error.log;

        ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/safematix/www.safematix.com.crt;
        ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/safematix/www.safematix.com.key;

        ssl_dhparam /etc/nginx/ssl/safematix/www.safematix.com-dhparam.pem;

	set $siteport 9001;

	include global/ssl.conf;
	include global/restrictions.conf;
	include global/wordpress.conf;
	include global/php.conf;
}

Now enable HHVM at boot and reload service

sudo update-rc.d hhvm_www_safematix_com defaults
sudo service hhvm_www_safematix_com start
sudo service nginx reload

 

 

 

External Links:
https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/wiki/Prebuilt-packages-on-Ubuntu-14.04
https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/wiki/Getting-Started
https://kinsta.com/blog/real-world-wordpress-benchmarks-with-php5-5-php5-6-php-ng-and-hhvm/
http://webdevstudios.com/2014/07/17/setting-up-wordpress-nginx-hhvm-for-the-fastest-possible-load-times/