I got Apache- (mpm-itk), sickbeard, sabnzbd, couchpotato and spotweb running on my pandaboard. But apache really used up a lot of resources. So I decided to replace it with nginx. Nginx would be a reverse proxy and communicate via fastcgi with php.

This post describes how to set up Nginx. Not how to install sabnzbd, sickbeard, couchpotato or spotweb on your machine. I assume you know how to do that.

Step 1: install nginx

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leon@panda:~$ sudo apt-get install nginx-light

Step 2: proxy stuff

Add all the important proxy stuff in one file so it can be included later on.

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proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
client_max_body_size 10m;
client_body_buffer_size 128k;
proxy_connect_timeout 90;
proxy_send_timeout 90;
proxy_read_timeout 90;
proxy_buffers 32 4k;

allow 192.168.1.0/24;
deny all;

Step 3: set up all the locations

Set up alle the locations (subdirectories on you http server) for sabnzbdplus, sickbeard, couchpotato and spotweb.

The important part from /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:

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server {

    location /sabnzbd {
        include /etc/nginx/conf.d/proxy.conf;

        proxy_pass http://localhost:9090;
    }

    location /sickbeard {
        include /etc/nginx/conf.d/proxy.conf;

        proxy_pass http://localhost:8081;
    }

    location /couchpotato {
        include /etc/nginx/conf.d/proxy.conf;

        proxy_pass http://localhost:5000/;
        rewrite ^/couchpotato/?$ /couchpotato/movie/ permanent;
    }

    location /spotweb {
        alias /home/leon/src/spotweb/spotweb.git; #not root directive

        location ~* \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass localhost:9001; #defined in /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/leon.conf
            include fastcgi_params;
            fastcgi_index index.php;
        }
    }
}

Step 4: setup php

Now we’re going to set up php for nginx with php5-fpm. This is a new module and isn’t available on older versions of ubuntu. I think it’s only available from ubuntu 10.10 and onwards.

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leon@panda:~$ sudo apt-get install php5-fpm

Then edit /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/leon.conf (in my case). I created another pool for my user (‘leon’) because I don’t want it to run under the user www-data or similar.

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; Start a new pool named 'leon'.
[leon]
listen = 127.0.0.1:9001
user = leon
group = leon

pm = dynamic
pm.start_servers = 1
pm.min_spare_servers = 1
pm.max_spare_servers = 4
pm.max_children = 4

Step 5: Restart everything and admire your work

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leon@panda:~$ sudo service nginx restart
leon@panda:~$ sudo service php5-fmp restart

Footnotes: I also tried to get it working with chroot = /home/leon in /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/leon.conf but I couldn’t get spotweb working with mysql on port 3306. When chrooted you can’t access /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock. I’ll have to investigate that a bit more.

Also, you could remove /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf if you don’t use it (like in my case):

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cd /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/
sudo mv www.conf www.conf.disabled
sudo service php5-fpm restart