Hi,

I really need your help. I just installed Nginx and php fast-cgi. the both are running. With ps aux | grep nginx and ps aux | grep cgi, I will be able to check if it's running. When I test to display a simple .html file in my wen repository, I don't have any problem but when I try to display some .php extension, it's not working (with simple .php file with phpinfo()).

The error I have in my log is:
connect() failed (110: Connection timed out) while connecting to upstream

I don't know where I missed something.

Regards,
Julien

could you include the relevant configuration file and options for nginx/phpfastcgi?

Below my configuration file for nginx:
server {
listen 178.79.137.216:80;
server_name www.webdorado.fr;

access_log /home/webdorado/logs/access.log;
error_log /home/webdorado/logs/error.log;



location / {
root /home/webdorado/public_html/wordpress;
index index.html index.htm;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
#if (!-f $request_filename) {
# return 404;
#}
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/webdorado/public_html/wordpress$fastcgi_script_name;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
}

# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}

and for the configuration of fat-cgi, I followed the instruction describes on this page http://library.linode.com/web-servers/n ... 0.04-lucid.

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -a 127.0.0.1 -p 9000 -C 6 -u www-data -f /usr/bin/php5-cgi

Your configuration seems correct... though I don't get why the Linode Library article uses two shell scripts instead of a single init script for spawn-fcgi. It should work nonetheless.

What happens when you do ... ?

/etc/init.d/php-fastcgi stop
/etc/init.d/php-fastcgi start

fastcgi is working, not problem. I founded a solution.

I replaced fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; by fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/fcgi.sock; and modify /usr/bin/php-fastcgi file. In Linode library, it's:
/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -a 127.0.0.1 -p 9000 -C 6 -u www-data -f /usr/bin/php5-cgi

I replaced too by:
/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -s /tmp/fcgi.sock -C 6 -u www-data -g www-data -f /usr/bin/php5-cgi

I don't know I have to use a socket???. I will ask to Linode support. Very strange. If you have an idea, you're welcome

Do you have some sort of firewall running on your Linode? A misconfigured firewall might interfere with localhost traffic.

Ah yes... I forgot to add this rules in my iptables. It's working now.

Thanks !
Julien