nginx and fastcgi - unable to serve PHP

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 10:49:06AM -0500, sekatsim wrote:

> I've been working on this for about two days now, still with no luck, and I'm about out of ideas. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
> 
> I've got a working install of nginx (serves HTML fine), installed php5 and followed the instructions at http://www.allthepages.org/archives/2009/02/how-get-drupal-working-nginx to get php working. I've been using the shell script from http://drupal.org/node/110224 to start php.
> 
> ps ax | grep php
>  1899 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/bin/php5-cgi -q -b 127.0.0.1:9000
>  1901 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/php5-cgi -q -b 127.0.0.1:9000
>  1902 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/php5-cgi -q -b 127.0.0.1:9000
>  1903 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/php5-cgi -q -b 127.0.0.1:9000
>  1904 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/php5-cgi -q -b 127.0.0.1:9000
>  1905 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/php5-cgi -q -b 127.0.0.1:9000
>  1975 pts/1    R+     0:00 grep --color=auto php
> 
> (php is running and listening on port 9000)
> 
> In my nginx server config, I have:
> 
>         location ~ \.php$ {
>             fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
>             fastcgi_index  index.php;
>             fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /var/www/mysite$fastcgi_script_name;
>             include        /opt/nginx/conf/fastcgi_params;
>         }
> 
> 
> However, on loading, I get a page that reads:  "The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later."
> 
> nginx's error.log reads:
> 
> 2010/01/06 10:34:20  1936#0: *1 recv() failed (104: Connection reset by peer) while reading response header from upstream, client: 192.168.2.4, server: mysite.com, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000", host: "192.168.2.16"

This usually means that php process died.  It may be caused by 
various things (e.g. wrong php extension order) but it's not 
really relevant to this list.

Maxim Dounin