# Can't fix "No input file specified." with php-fastcgi **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [September 4, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-fix-no-input-file-specified-with-php-fastcgi/211456 "2011-09-04T20:37:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@luislavena](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/luislavena)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-fix-no-input-file-specified-with-php-fastcgi/211456/1 "2011-09-04T20:37:53Z")
I’ve been trying to fix this pesky error for a couple days and no forums or anything is suggesting anything that is helping. I simply just need someone to login to my EC2 instance and figure out what’s going on. I’ve tried reinstalling php to all the default configs and everything but nothing is working. I don’t have any money to pay for this right now but you can invoice my paypal and I will get to it as soon as I have the money to give. My timeline for this is pretty quick as I have something that needs to be launched on tuesday. Please let me know if someone can fix this asap. Thanks in advance. Logan Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Can't fix "No input file specified." with php-fastcgi](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,214746,214746#msg-214746)** > > I've been trying to fix this pesky error for a couple days and no forums or anything is suggesting anything that is helping. I simply just need someone to login to my EC2 instance and figure out what's going on. I've tried reinstalling php to all the... ---
**Author:** ![loganbest](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@loganbest](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/loganbest)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-fix-no-input-file-specified-with-php-fastcgi/211456/2 "2011-09-04T20:41:35Z")
Do you really need it to be fastcgi now? I mean you can start with Apache behind nginx and switch to fastcgi later, after your launch. Regards Guillermo. On Sep 4, 2011 2:37 PM, “loganbest” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: I’ve been trying to fix this pesky error for a couple days and no forums or anything is suggesting anything that is helping. I simply just need someone to login to my EC2 instance and figure out what’s going on. I’ve tried reinstalling php to all the default configs and everything but nothing is working. I don’t have any money to pay for this right now but you can invoice my paypal and I will get to it as soon as I have the money to give. My timeline for this is pretty quick as I have something that needs to be launched on tuesday. Please let me know if someone can fix this asap. Thanks in advance. Logan Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Can't fix "No input file specified." with php-fastcgi](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,214746,214746#msg-214746)** > > I've been trying to fix this pesky error for a couple days and no forums or anything is suggesting anything that is helping. I simply just need someone to login to my EC2 instance and figure out what's going on. I've tried reinstalling php to all the... ---
**Author:** ![loganbest](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@loganbest](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/loganbest)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-fix-no-input-file-specified-with-php-fastcgi/211456/3 "2011-09-04T20:46:31Z")
I’m not sure what the standard practices of nginx+php are. This is my first time working with nginx and I didn’t install nginx, I just installed fastcgi based on an article I found at the top of google. I’ve seen php-fpm and php-fastcgi and I don’t know the differences or pro/cons of each. I’m really just looking for some quick help to get this running. I’d also rather not have both nginx and apache running on the same server since this isn’t a very large ec2 instance I can’t take the memory footprint of apache. Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: Can't fix "No input file specified." with php-fastcgi](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,214746,214748#msg-214748)** > > I've been trying to fix this pesky error for a couple days and no forums or anything is suggesting anything that is helping. I simply just need someone to login to my EC2 instance and figure out what's going on. I've tried reinstalling php to all the... ---
**Author:** ![loganbest](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@loganbest](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/loganbest)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-fix-no-input-file-specified-with-php-fastcgi/211456/4 "2011-09-04T22:24:43Z")
Somehow, between purging all php configs and packages and reinstalling them and altering the php location definition in the nginx.conf it now works as it did before… I"m confused but I’m not going to touch it now. Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: Can't fix "No input file specified." with php-fastcgi](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,214746,214754#msg-214754)** > > I've been trying to fix this pesky error for a couple days and no forums or anything is suggesting anything that is helping. I simply just need someone to login to my EC2 instance and figure out what's going on. I've tried reinstalling php to all the... ---
**Author:** ![loganbest](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@loganbest](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/loganbest)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-fix-no-input-file-specified-with-php-fastcgi/211456/5 "2011-09-05T14:06:54Z")
Well I’ve only worked in the past with nginx serving static files and sending php to apache behind. If you decide to go that way or not find help in the current scenario, I can help you then. Let me know, I’ll be checking my blackberry, in 5 hours I will be available On Sep 4, 2011 2:46 PM, “loganbest” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: I’m not sure what the standard practices of nginx+php are. This is my first time working with nginx and I didn’t install nginx, I just installed fastcgi based on an article I found at the top of google. I’ve seen php-fpm and php-fastcgi and I don’t know the differences or pro/cons of each. I’m really just looking for some quick help to get this running. I’d also rather not have both nginx and apache running on the same server since this isn’t a very large ec2 instance I can’t take the memory footprint of apache. Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: Can't fix "No input file specified." with php-fastcgi](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,214746,214748#msg-214748)** > > I've been trying to fix this pesky error for a couple days and no forums or anything is suggesting anything that is helping. I simply just need someone to login to my EC2 instance and figure out what's going on. I've tried reinstalling php to all the... ---
**Author:** ![loganbest](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@loganbest](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/loganbest)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2011, 11:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cant-fix-no-input-file-specified-with-php-fastcgi/211456/6 "2011-09-04T23:14:47Z")
I take that back… it started again. Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: Can't fix "No input file specified." with php-fastcgi](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,214746,214756#msg-214756)** > > I've been trying to fix this pesky error for a couple days and no forums or anything is suggesting anything that is helping. I simply just need someone to login to my EC2 instance and figure out what's going on. I've tried reinstalling php to all the...