Install Ultimate SMS on Ubuntu Instance – 22.04/24.04 with Nginx and PHP 8.2

STEP 1: INSTALL Nginx

Log in with your SSH access, then run the following commands.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install nginx

Stop and start Nginx service:

sudo systemctl stop nginx
sudo systemctl start nginx

STEP 2: INSTALL PHP8.2 AND DEPENDENCIES

sudo apt update
sudo apt install software-properties-common -y
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php -y
sudo apt update
sudo apt install php8.2 php8.2-cli php8.2-common php8.2-fpm php8.2-mysql php8.2-xml php8.2-gd php8.2-zip php8.2-mbstring php8.2-curl php8.2-bcmath php8.2-tokenizer -y

STEP 3: EDIT PHP SETTINGS AS PER ULTIMATE SMS RECOMMENDATIONS

sudo nano /etc/php/8.2/fpm/php.ini

Make the following edits to the php.ini file:

memory_limit=256M
upload_max_filesize=128M
post_max_size=128M
cgi.fix_pathinfo=0
max_input_vars=3000

Remember to restart the PHP-FPM service for your changes to take effect:

sudo systemctl restart php8.2-fpm

STEP 4: COMPOSER INSTALL

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

STEP 5: CONFIGURE VIRTUALHOST

Create a virtual host config file named codeglen.com:

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/codeglen.com.conf # Replace with your domain

Add the below lines to the file:

I am creating a virtual host for codeglen.com

server {
  listen 80; # Or 443 for HTTPS
  server_name codeglen.com www.codeglen.com; # Replace with your domain

  root /var/www/html/public; # IMPORTANT: Point to the 'public' directory

  index index.php index.html index.htm; # Default files to look for

  # Custom log files for this domain
  access_log /var/log/nginx/codeglen.com-access.log; # Replace with your domain
  error_log /var/log/nginx/codeglen.com-error.log; # Replace with your domain

  # This is the Nginx equivalent of Laravel's .htaccess rewrite rules
  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
  }

  # Pass PHP scripts to FastCGI (PHP-FPM) server
  location ~ \.php$ {
      include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf; # Includes common FastCGI parameters
      fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.2-fpm.sock; # Adjust if your PHP-FPM socket path or version is different
      fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
      include fastcgi_params; # Includes other standard FastCGI parameters
   }

   # Deny access to .env and other sensitive files
   location ~ /\.env|^\.git {
      deny all;
   }

   # Deny access to .ht* files
   location ~ /\.ht {
      deny all;
    }
  }

STEP 6: CREATE A SYMLINK TO ENABLE THE SITE

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/codeglen.com.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

Test Nginx configuration for syntax errors:

sudo nginx -t

After saving and closing the file, you’ll need to reload Nginx so the changes take effect:

sudo systemctl reload nginx

Now upload Ultimate SMS Fresh_Installation_File folder files on /var/www/html folder.
Move to the project root directory and Update Ownership of the directory:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/storage
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/bootstrap/cache

STEP 7: INSTALL MySQL

Install MySQL on the server please check this URL: Install MySQL on Ubuntu Instance

STEP 8: INSTALL ULTIMATE SMS

Now browse or insert your ultimate sms installation domain URL on the browser and follow the following video tutorial: https://youtu.be/zH9r3XC8EbY

If you face any issues with installing Ultimate SMS on an Ubuntu instance then please create a support ticket on our support portal:  https://codeglen.ticksy.com/ Our technical team will get in touch with you. It will take a maximum of 24 to 48 hours to reply.