I am following this tutorial: https://linode.com/docs/websites/nginx/nginx-and-phpfastcgi-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts-precise-pangolin

I have installed the following packages:

apt-get install nginx php5-cli php5-cgi spawn-fcgi psmisc

Despite installing PHP FastCGI, I do not have the following file on my server to use in my UNIX socket configuration:

fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fastcgi/php-fastcgi.socket;

I have used the find command on the entire system, and this file definitely does not exist.

How can I create/get this file? I have literally searched all across the internet, and nothing works.

What are the contents of

/usr/bin/php-fastcgi

and output of

/etc/init.d/php-fastcgi status

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You need to configure your FPM pool, in particular the "listen" directive:
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; The address on which to accept FastCGI requests.
; Valid syntaxes are:
; 'ip.add.re.ss:port' - to listen on a TCP socket to a specific address on
; a specific port;
; 'port' - to listen on a TCP socket to all addresses on a
; specific port;
; '/path/to/unix/socket' - to listen on a unix socket.
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http://php.net/manual/en/install.fpm.configuration.php

robert

They're not using fpm so no they don't.

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Ok, he's not using php-fpm, but why not?

It's the recommended way to run PHP these days.