Nginx + FastCGI + PHP5 on FreeBSD 6.2

[Volodymyr Kostyrko]

Peter Pluta wrote:

nginx.conf snippet:

server {
   listen *:80;
   server_name ...;
   root ...;
   access_log /var/log/nginx/....access.log;
   index index.php;

   location ~ .*\.php$ {
     include /usr/local/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
     fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/.fastcgi.www/socket;
     fastcgi_index index.php;
     fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME ...$fastcgi_script_name;
   }
}

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/phpFcgid script:

#!/bin/sh

# PROVIDE: phpFcgid
# REQUIRE: LOGIN
# KEYWORD: shutdown

. /etc/rc.subr

name="phpFcgid"
rcvar=`set_rcvar`

load_rc_config $name
: ${phpFcgid_enable="NO"}
: ${phpFcgid_users="www"}
: ${phpFcgid_children="2"}

start_cmd=phpFcgid_start
stop_cmd=phpFcgid_stop

phpFcgid_start() {
   echo "Starting $name."
   export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=${phpFcgid_chidlren}
   for user in ${phpFcgid_users}; do
     socketdir="/tmp/.fastcgi.${user}"
     mkdir -p ${socketdir}
     chown ${user}:www ${socketdir}
     chmod 0750 ${socketdir}
     su -m ${user} -c "/usr/local/bin/php-cgi -b ${socketdir}/socket&"
   done
}

phpFcgid_stop() {
   echo "Stopping $name."
   pids=`pgrep php-cgi`
   pkill php-cgi
   wait_for_pids $pids
}

run_rc_command "$1"

Also put this to your /etc/rc.conf file:

phpFcgid_enable='yes'

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