Debian LNMP With Dotdeb

That's right, I've finally succumbed to using a third party repository for the Debian LNMP script. In addition to the 100% Debian packages script, there is now a Dotdeb version of the script which uses MySQL, Nginx and PHP5 packages from Dotdeb. Every other installed package is from official Debian repo.

Direct download link = Here

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During the feature freeze of Debian squeeze, the PHP maintainers decided to remove the PHP5-FPM package from the main repository. Therefore if you want to setup Nginx with PHP5-FPM you would need to either :-

1. Pull the package from testing repository which breaks often unless you upgrade entire system to testing. You risk slower security updates this way and potentially bugs if the package maintainer isn't careful. We're all human beings! Ironically... Debian Testing is historically more bug free than Debian stable as updates come directly from upstream.
2. Compile your own PHP. Probably not the wisest option unless you really know what you're doing. If you want to upgrade or add new extensions you'll need to recompile, which can get rather tedious to maintain.
3. Use a third party repository. This is where Dotdeb comes in. So far it is a rather well maintained repo so I'd say its a fairly safe option.

Personally, I'd probably still use Debian testing since the web related packages rarely breaks but the dotdeb option isn't too bad either.