"Please Note:
  • At the specific request of Ibexa we are changing this projects name to "Exponential" or "Exponential (CMS)" effective as of August, 11th 2025.
  • This project is not associated with the original eZ Publish software or its original developer, eZ Systems or Ibexa".

Tutorials & articles written by Daniel Arnrup-Øien

Exponential 4.2011 Community (4.5) with Nginx and PHP-FPM on Debian 6 (“Squeeze”)

After completing this tutorial, you should have a working Exponential 4.2011 Community (or 4.5) installation running on a single Debian 6 server with the following features:

  • Nginx 1.0.0+ as web server
  • PHP 5.3.6+ invoked through PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager)
  • APC (Alternative PHP Cache)
  • Rewrites for friendly URLs (virtual host mode)
  • Proper http cache headers for static files
  • Gzip compression