Getting PHP-FPM running on nginx


Getting FastCGI working on nginx

I have two files – a modified version of FastCGI_params, and an extra file that contains my configuration directives for .php files.

The second file is simply named php_fastcgi and is located in the same folder as nginx.conf, and is include php_fastcgi;-d anywhere I need PHP support:

# Process PHP files with FastCGI
location ~* \.php$ {
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/www-pool.socket;
    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
}

As for the fastcgi_params file, it’s slight modification of the default file, included here for simplicity:

fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;

fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      $document_root;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;
fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param  PATH_INFO          $fastcgi_script_name;

fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx/$nginx_version;

fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;

# PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;

Getting PHP-FPM sessions working

The default path, /var/lib/php/sessions is – by default – owned by root, and group apache, so the nginx user can’t write to it. So we have to change the folder owner and group:

chgrp nginx /var/lib/php 
mkdir /var/lib/php/session

Alternatively, create a new directory in /tmp, something like /tmp/php-fpm, and make php-fpm the owner of that, and point php-fpm at that directory. (It would also prevent yum ever mucking with permissions on the folder, something which I’m not sure if it was just my imagination, or actually happened…)

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