Comments on Just In Time: Serving PHP5 with Nginx on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy)

Works just perfect ... but just used the latest N...

2009-06-22T23:13:23.518-07:00

Works just perfect ...

but just used the latest NGINX source with all these ...
Keep the good work going :)

Thanks for your article , I followed you step by s...

2009-03-11T05:59:00.000-07:00

Thanks for your article , I followed you step by step and the server runs well ,but the phpinfo() function shows none word about MYSQL,the mysql_connect() function return error : function not found .
php5-mysql module had been installed . Any help ?
Thanks

@sfong regarding the missing switch error... I ran...

2009-01-10T19:18:00.000-08:00

@sfong regarding the missing switch error... I ran into this problem and realized that the php-fastcgi script is only two lines, though it appears as three lines in the tutorial due to word-wrapping in HTML. If you copy and paste the two lines verbatim into your terminal, you will get the following:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -a 127.0.0.1 -p 9000 -u www-data -f /usr/bin/php5-cgi

The earlier error came from a mistaken carriage return after the -f option.

Hope that helps,
-Sam

Re my comment above, I finally figured it out. Tha...

2008-12-25T15:41:00.000-08:00

Re my comment above, I finally figured it out. That "fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/nginx-default$fastcgi_script_name;" line in the nginx config file needs to point to the root directory of your own site, not to the nginx-default one (if you're using this on your own site). So when I changed /var/www/nginx-default to /path/to/my/root/directory, this all worked. Thanks much again.

Thanks. I followed this for my Ubuntu 8.04, nginx,...

2008-12-22T23:28:00.000-08:00

Thanks. I followed this for my Ubuntu 8.04, nginx, Slicehost VPS slice. But I'm getting that dreaded "No input file specified" error when a php file is loaded (see e,g, http://petersavich.com/Duck/Predictions/predictions.php). I tried setting cgi.force_reload = 0 in /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini per some suggestions on Google. But that didn't help. Any suggestions? Thanks.

As gexla said you could need to use killall -9 php...

2008-10-30T21:50:00.000-07:00

As gexla said you could need to use killall -9 php-cgi or (for php5 process) killall -9 php5-cgi

For those of you having problems getting the init ...

2008-08-21T10:02:00.000-07:00

For those of you having problems getting the init script to start or stop you may need to change the killall -9 php to killall -9 php-cgi depending on your situation. Do a ps aux to see all the running processes and find out exactly what name your PHP processes are running as.

Also, you don't have to run the Touch command to create the file before opening Vim. Just telling Vim to open a file name will create that file automatically if it doesn't exist.

Thanks for the tutorial by the way, it really helped.

Thanks so much for making a great concise article ...

2008-07-27T00:32:00.000-07:00

Thanks so much for making a great concise article on how to get this all working...

Really appreciate it!

Hi,Very good tutorial. Is there someone to explain...

2008-07-11T02:33:00.000-07:00

Hi,
Very good tutorial. Is there someone to explain how to create a correct virtual host following that guide ?

Thanks

Carlo

Thanks a lot for this great howto.The fastcgi proc...

2008-06-19T20:30:00.000-07:00

Thanks a lot for this great howto.

The fastcgi process are there after a reboot.

The only problem I found is that i am unable to use the init-fastcgi script to stop or restart the fastcgi processes.

/etc/init.d/init-fastcgi stop
php: no process killed

agreed, this is a really really good tutorial

2008-05-23T12:35:00.000-07:00

agreed, this is a really really good tutorial

Like some of the others said, thanks. This works l...

2008-04-21T00:53:00.000-07:00

Like some of the others said, thanks. This works like a dream. Cheers!

Awesome. Thank you very much for these instruction...

2008-04-07T15:09:00.000-07:00

Awesome. Thank you very much for these instructions. I got over eager and tried to compile the latest version of Lighttpd (1.4.19) but for some reason "./configure" does not spit out a "make" file, in turn making me want to pull my hair out.

Since we only need the "spawn-fcgi" from it I just used your exact instructions and it worked. Now my server is happy, and so am I.

Thanks for this, a set of instructions which actua...

2008-04-05T06:14:00.000-07:00

Thanks for this, a set of instructions which actually worked, from start to finish. I think nginx would do well to make this whole process easier, because nginx+PHP could easily take over from Apache+PHP in lots of cases.

I don't know if this will help the people running ...

2008-03-29T08:14:00.000-07:00

I don't know if this will help the people running into script errors but in the nginx configuration section this line was getting cutoff until I reduced my font size a couple notches:

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/nginx-default$fastcgi_script_name;

I caught that right away and everything worked off the bat for me.

Thanks for the credit about my LEMP howto. i didn'...

2008-03-29T07:18:00.000-07:00

Thanks for the credit about my LEMP howto. i didn't know people found it so useful.

I tryed your tutorial twice. I keep getting "No In...

2008-03-22T16:28:00.000-07:00

I tryed your tutorial twice. I keep getting "No Input File Specified" error. Any ideas?

Good howto, thanks a lot. I couldn't get it to w...

2008-03-06T02:30:00.000-08:00

Good howto, thanks a lot. I couldn't get it to work at the last step, i.e. when spawn-fcgi is started error says a switch is missing? It hanged there. I ended up reinstalling 7.10.

Also what's that '-y' switch for when installing mysql and php. I didn't use that when installing my LAMP.

Lance:Thanks!! Sorry about that.

2008-01-28T16:46:00.000-08:00

Lance:

Thanks!! Sorry about that.

Need to add a "make" command between:> ./configure...

2008-01-28T16:31:00.000-08:00

Need to add a "make" command between:

> ./configure
> sudo cp src/spawn-fcgi /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi

should read:

> ./configure
> make
> sudo cp src/spawn-fcgi /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi