I'm trying to get Nginx and PHP-FastCGI on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS configured correctly, but running into problems. Any help is appreciated. I will provide any additional information if needed.

I have two nginx configuration files at:
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
/etc/nginx/sites-available/mysite.com

Issue 1: mysite.com/info.php "File not found."

I've created a doc named info.php in /usr/share/nginx/html. When I attempt to visit the file, I get "File not found." as my error message. I see no place in my configuration files where /usr/share/nginx/html is specified...should that be set as root somewhere? My websites files are in /srv/www/mysite.com/public_html which is set as the root in /etc/nginx/sites-available/mysite.com

Issue 2: mysite.com/importbuddy.php "Error #224834. This directory is not write enabled. Please verify write permissions to continue."

I have a doc named importbuddy.php to import a wordpress website in /srv/www/mysite.com/public_html. I believe the error message I receive when I try to visit this site is due to my php-fpm/php-fcgi server not having write permissions in this directory, but I'm not sure how to enable write permissions for the php-fpm/php-fcgi server.



Additional information:

I have gone back and forth in /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf and /etc/nginx/sites-available/gogogainesville.com changing the "listen =" and "fastcgi_pass" parameters, respectively. The parameters I've tried are:

listen = 127.0.0.1:9000;
listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
listen = /tmp/php5-fpm.sock;
listen = /var/run/php-fastcgi/php-fastcgi.socket;

In the last case, I created an executable file /usr/bin/php-fastcgi with the following contents (where 'my_user' is the user who owns /srv/www/*):

File:/usr/bin/php-fastcgi
#!/bin/bash
FASTCGI_USER=my_user
FASTCGI_GROUP=my_user
SOCKET=/var/run/php-fastcgi/php-fastcgi.socket
PIDFILE=/var/run/php-fastcgi/php-fastcgi.pid
CHILDREN=6
PHP5=/usr/bin/php5-cgi
/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -s $SOCKET -P $PIDFILE -C $CHILDREN -u $FASTCGI_USER -g $FASTCGI_GROUP -f $PHP5


I've installed the following:
spawn-fcgi
php5-cli
php5-cgi
php5-fpm
psmisc


If anyone can shed some light on my config. issues or point me in a good direction, I'd really appreciate it.

I unfortunately had VERY similar if not exactly the same problems setting this same combo up. 2 Weeks into owning a Linode I called it impossible as of now and switched to apache unfortunately. Would love to hear a fix on this one.

Impossible? :/ There's plenty of guides available on setting this up.

Now I don't use spawn-fcgi (I use PHP-FPM/FastCGI)and I do it with Debian and nginx - I have a Dutch guide here: http://www.pcwebplus.nl/phpbb/viewtopic ... 72&t=10320

Google translate should work for it, just keep the dutch version for commands/code block references.

Good luck

I've a stack script that sets up a LEMP stack. https://www.linode.com/stackscripts/vie ... iptID=4745 it could do with an update but it should still work fine.

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Have you checked that you have a symbolic link to /sites-enabled/* ?

Remember that Nginx only listens to sites-enabled, and you'll need to create a symbolic link between your mysite.com conf file in sites-available to a similar one in sites-enabled.