The php5-cgi (until 5.2.4) package does not include a script to
automatically start it in external FASTCGI Mode (Daemon mode).
As there is some confusion on the Internet on how to properly set PHP
script execution in the Nginx Web server, I am attaching the script that
we reliably use at our UBUNTU Linux http://ubuntu.com/ servers.
We use Upstart, the Ubuntu’s native event-based replacement for the
sysvinit daemon.
This how we set it up:
sudo tee /etc/event.d/php-fastcgi <<-\EOA
/etc/event.d/php-fastcgi
php-fastcgi - starts php-cgi as an external FASTCGI process
start on runlevel 2
start on runlevel 3
start on runlevel 4
start on runlevel 5
stop on runlevel 0
stop on runlevel 1
stop on runlevel 6
exec /usr/bin/sudo -u www-data PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=5
PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=125 /usr/bin/php-cgi -q -b 127.0.0.1:9000
respawn
EOA
sudo chmod u+x /etc/event.d/php-fastcgi
sudo initctl start php-fastcgi # start php-fastcgi
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart
sudo initctl status php-fastcgi # check if upstart is supervising
ps aux | grep cgi # check the php-cgi running processes
sudo initctl stop php-fastcgi # stop php-fastcgi and all its childs.
Regards,
M.
This is how we install it in Ubuntu/Debian(sudo enabled):
sudo nano /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi # copy and paste the text between
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sudo chmod u+x /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi
sudo chown 0.0 /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi
sudo update-rc.d php-fastcgi defaults 21 23
I hope it may also help you at your setups.
M.
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#! /bin/sh
BEGIN INIT INFO
Provides: php-fastcgi
Required-Start: $all
Required-Stop: $all
Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
Default-Stop: 0 1 6
Short-Description: Start and stop php-cgi in external FASTCGI mode
Description: Start and stop php-cgi in external FASTCGI mode
END INIT INFO
Do NOT “set -e”
Default values are enclosed in []
PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
Start php-fastcgi? [no]
START=yes
Read configuration data
NAME=php-fastcgi
DESC=“php-cgi runing in external FASTCGI mode”
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME
Daemon pathname and args: IP=[127.0.0.1], port=[9000]
/usr/bin/php-cgi links to → /etc/alternatives/php-cgi →
/usr/bin/php5-cgi
DAEMON=/usr/bin/php-cgi
DAEMON_ARGS=“-q -b 127.0.0.1:9000”
Which user runs PHP? [www-data]
EXEC_AS_USER=www-data
php-cgi env. variables: spawned children [5] , concurrent requests
[1000]
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=5
PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=125
export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS
Exit if php-cgi is not installed
[ -x “$DAEMON” ] || exit 0
Load rcS variable settings and set (re)start/stop verbosity
[ -f /etc/default/rcS ] && . /etc/default/rcS
VERBOSE=yes
Define LSB log_* functions.
Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present.
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
If $START not ‘yes’ AND we are not stopping the $DAEMON
if [ “$START” != “yes” -a “$1” != “stop” ]; then
log_warning_msg “To enable $NAME, edit /etc/init.d/$NAME and set
START=yes”
exit 0
fi
do_start()
{
Return values: 0=started ok,1=already running,2=unable to start
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
–test > /dev/null || return 1
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --background
–chuid $EXEC_AS_USER --pidfile $PIDFILE --make-pidfile
–exec $DAEMON – $DAEMON_ARGS
|| return 2
}
do_stop()
{
Return values: 0=stopped ok,1=already stopped,2=unable to stop,
other if a failure occurred
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 \
--pidfile $PIDFILE > /dev/null # --name $DAEMON
RETVAL=“$?”
[ “$RETVAL” = 2 ] && return 2
Wait for children to finish too.
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5
–exec $DAEMON
[ “$?” = 2 ] && return 2
Many daemons don’t delete their pidfiles when they exit.
rm -f $PIDFILE
return “$RETVAL”
}
case “$1” in
start)
[ “$VERBOSE” != no ] && log_daemon_msg “Starting $DESC”
do_start
case “$?” in
0|1) [ “$VERBOSE” != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
2) [ “$VERBOSE” != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
esac
;;
stop)
[ “$VERBOSE” != no ] && log_daemon_msg “Stopping $DESC”
do_stop
case “$?” in
0|1) [ “$VERBOSE” != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
2) [ “$VERBOSE” != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
esac
;;
restart|force-reload)
log_daemon_msg “Restarting $DESC”
do_stop
case “$?” in
0|1)
do_start
case “$?” in
0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running
*) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start
esac
;;
*)
# Failed to stop
log_end_msg 1
;;
esac
;;
*)
echo “Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}” >&2
exit 3
;;
esac
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