http://mirror.hmc.edu/centos/6.6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.6-x86_64-minimal.iso
cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 first make sure ethernet card is setup on boot:

to make sure you have :  ONBOOT = “yes”

sudo yum install rpm-build
yum install wget
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm
rpm -Uvh remi-release-6*.rpm epel-release-6*.rpm
cd /etc/yum.repos.d
  add in the repo to grab latest nginx vi nginx.repo:
     #nginx.repo
     [nginx]
     name=nginx repo
     baseurl=http://nginx.org/packages/centos/6/$basearch
     gpgcheck=0
     enabled=1
  vi remi.repo
     set [remi]  enabled = 1  AND [remi-php55] enabled = 1 AND [remi-php55-debuginfo] enabled=1
yum update -y
yum install php php-fpm php-gd php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mysql php-apc php-common php-curl php-intl php-soap php-xmlrpc  -y
yum --enablerepo=remi list mysql mysql-server
yum install git mysql mysql-server -y

vi /etc/php-fpm.d/www*

listen = /tmp/php5-fpm.sock
listen.owner = nginx
listen.group =nginx
user =nginx
group =nginx

vi /etc/php.ini

• cgi.fix_pathinfo=1
• add opcache:
  [opcache]
  opcache.enable=1
  opcache.memory_consumption=128
  opcache.interned_strings_buffer=8
  opcache.max_accelerated_files=4000
  opcache.revalidate_freq = 60
  opcache.max_wasted_percentage=5
  ; Required for Moodle
  opcache.use_cwd=1
  opcache.validate_timestamps=1
  opcache.save_comments = 1
  opcache.enable_file_override = 0
• ; If something does not work in Moodle
  ;opcache.revalidate_path = 1 ; May fix problems with include paths
  ;opcache.mmap_base = 0x20000000 ; (Windows only) fix OPcache crashes with event id 487; Experimental for Moodle 2.6 and later
  ;opcache.fast_shutdown = 1
  ;opcache.enable_cli = 1 ; Speeds up CLI cron
  ;opcache.load_comments = 0 ; May lower memory use, might not be compatible with add-ons and other apps.

intall nginX:

yum install nginx

intall moodle:

• mkdir /usr/local/src cd /usr/local/src
• get url for moodle from https:/download.moodle.org/local/downloadmoodleorg/stats.php
• wget http://download.moodle.org/download.php/direct/moodle/moodle-latest.zip
• unzip moodle-latest.zip
• mkdir /var/www/yoursite.com/
• mv moodle/* /var/www/yoursite.com/
• chown nginx:adm yoursite.com
• chmod 755 yoursite.com
• mkdir /var/www/moodledata
• chown nginx:adm moodledata -R
• chmod 755 moodledata -R
• update config  with sql user/pass and moodledata path at /var/www/moodlesite/config-dist.php

nginx configuration:

rewrite ^/(.*.php)(/)(.*)$ /$1?file=/$3 last;

vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/yoursite.com.conf

### yourwebsite.com

server {
root /var/www/yourwebsite.com;
#access_log logs/yourwebsite.com-access_log;
#error_log logs/yourwebsite.com-error_log crit;

listen 80;
server_name yourwebsite.com www.yourwebsite.com;

location / {
index index.php index.html index.htm;

# moodle rewrite rules
rewrite ^/(.*.php)(/)(.*)$ /$1?file=/$3 last;
}

# php parsing
location ~ .php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
fastcgi_buffers 256 4k;
fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;
fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;

}

}
service mysqld restart
mysql -u root

SET PASSWORD FOR 'root'@'localhost' = PASSWORD('password');
exit;
chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on
chkconfig --levels 235 nginx on
chkconfig --levels 235 php-fpm on

service nginx restart
service php-fpm restart

see next post for certs