Create a ZIP package for a PHP application - Serverless App Engine

You can create a ZIP package that contains the NGINX configurations for an existing on-premises PHP application or the PHP application that you create on your on-premises machine. You can use the ZIP package to deploy the application in Serverless App Engine (SAE). This topic describes how to create a ZIP package for a PHP application and how to deploy the PHP application by using the ZIP package. This topic also provides the directory structure of the ZIP package and some sample configurations.

Directory structure of the ZIP package

ZIP directory	Runtime directory	Description
./nginx	/home/admin/app/nginx/	The directory in which the NGINX configuration file is stored.
./nginx/*.conf	/home/admin/app/nginx/*.conf	The directory in which configurations of NGINX servers are stored. The `Server {}` configuration is supported.
./php	/home/admin/app/php/	The directory in which PHP is stored.

If you want to deploy an application, you can create a ZIP package for the application based on the demo application package and then upload the package to SAE. In this example, the demo application package is used. For more information, see hello-sae-php.zip. The following sample code provides an example of the directory structure after the ZIP package is decompressed.

.
├── nginx
│   ├── default.conf
│   ├── fastcgi_params
│   └── root.dir
├── php
│   ├── index.php
│   └── phpinfo.php

Important

If you do not use NGINX, we recommend that you retain the NGINX configurations in the demo application package to ensure a smooth application startup.

Step 1: Create a ZIP package for a PHP application

Run commands or use a file compression tool to include the ./php and ./nginx directories into a ZIP package. The following section describes how to create a ZIP package by running commands.

Run the following command to download the demo application package:

wget https://sae-demo-cn-shenzhen.oss-cn-shenzhen.aliyuncs.com/demo/1.0/hello-sae-php.zip

Run the following command to decompress the package:
```
unzip hello-sae-php.zip
```
Run the following commands in sequence to add custom code to the application package. In this example, the demo application package is used.
1. ```
echo '<?php' > php/index.php
```
2. ```
echo 'echo "Hello my first SAE application";' >> php/index.php
```
Run the zip command to create a ZIP package.
```
zip -r sae.demo.zip nginx php
```

Step 2: Deploy the PHP application

Procedure

For more information, see Deploy a PHP application by using a ZIP package in the SAE console.

Additional configurations for the application

After the PHP application is deployed in SAE, you can view real-time logs to troubleshoot the application. You can also bind a Server Load Balancer (SLB) instance to the application and then access the application over the Internet. The following table describes the sample configurations for the application.

Item	Description
Default port for HTTP and NGINX	Set the port number to `80`.
Error logs	Include the standard output in real-time logs.
Access logs	By default, access logs are not displayed. For information about how to obtain the access logs, see NGINX logs: standard output.