Comments on: FreeBSD: Nginx FastCGI PHP Configuration

By: Shatil

Shatil — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 03:28:00 +0000

Hi guys,

FreeBSD’s ports selection (at least 8.1′s—I’ve been using it for four hours now) has PHP 5.3.4+ now, which means PHP-FPM comes standard as long as you compile it through ports. With that, you can do away with needing spawn-fcgi, lighttpd, and the other nonsense that used to be necessary to get PHP + Nginx working.

Maybe you could post another post with that?

By: Dustin Sweigart

Dustin Sweigart — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:08:39 +0000

my config: http://swigg.net/nginx.txt

Normally it runs fine, you can check out http://swigg.net/ if you’d like to see PHP running normally. But push the server really hard and whatever process exists after you call spawn-fcgi dies (as in it is no longer running)

[error] 24813#0: *1032 recv() failed (104: Connection reset by peer) while reading response header from upstream, client: 64.22.125.174, server: localhost, request: "GET / HTTP/1.0", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:10005", host: "swigg.net"

[error] 24813#0: *3964 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 64.22.125.174, server: localhost, request: "GET / HTTP/1.0", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:10005", host: "swigg.net"

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:12:08 +0000

Do you get any specific error in a log file? Also, specify your server config

By: Dustin Sweigart

Dustin Sweigart — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:36:05 +0000

I set this up and it works great, but under high loads (testing with apache’s ab) the spawn-fcgi/php-cgi process dies and so my server stops being able to load PHP. I know I’m testing with an unrealistic load on my server, but I also don’t want others to be able to so easily break my server.
ab -n1000 -c200 http://websiteurl/

Does anyone else have this problem, and if so, does anyone know how to fix it?

By: ksil

ksil — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:23:42 +0000

Hi, thank you for useful post. Let me cite this article in my Japanese blog:
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/ksil/20090627/1246093375

By: Bash

Bash — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:44:52 +0000

This guy does not cite your blog:

http://claudiuc.easyblog.ro/2009/04/freebsd-nginx-fastcgi-php-configuration/

By: symbol

symbol — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:52:17 +0000

yea. and spawn_fcgi_enable=”YES” >> /etc/rc.conf seem to do the trick

or am i missing something that would come back to haunt me sometime later

By: Leo Vandewoestijne

Leo Vandewoestijne — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:12:24 +0000

Maybe the port wasn’t available by writing your article, or maybe I’m confusing things… …but the step “Install spawn-fcgi”, can that be done without any lighttpd? Like:
pkg_add spawn-fcgi
?

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:50:25 +0000

Thanks for the great tutorial. Long life for freebsd and nginx!

By: George Bonev

George Bonev — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:29:20 +0000

Worked Like a charm / thx :)