How to configure NGINX with php-fpm on mac - php

Question

Been facing this issue now for quite a long time. New on nginx so need help
Basically Im trying to configure nginx settings to use my PHP projects. Before I was using Apache (MAMP) to run all my php proj. Now im shifting to nginx. I have configured all possible settings needed in nginx.conf file (have a look below). But still im facing rather the same issue and im not able to correctly address it for some reason.
...nginx default settings
nginx.conf
server{
listen 80;
error_log /usr/local/etc/nginx/log/freespinswizard-error.log;
access_log /usr/local/etc/nginx/log/freespinswizard-access.log;
access_log off;
#location / {
root /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/freespinswizard/;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
#}
#root /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/freespinswizard/;
#index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name www.freespinswizard.com freespinswizard.com;
location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|css|js|ico|xml|otf)$ {
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
expires 30d;
add_header Pragma public;
add_header Cache-Control "public";
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
#fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
#fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/freespinswizard.sock;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
#fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
#fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
#fastcgi_buffers 256 16k;
#fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;
#fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
include fastcgi_params;
add_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;
}
rewrite ^/offers/([^/\.]*)/?$ /page-handler.php?story-page-slug=$1 break;
rewrite ^/ab/([^/\.]*)/?$ /page-handler.php?group-key-name=$1 break;
if ($request_uri !~ "(^/scripts/)"){
rewrite ^/.*.php.* /page-handler.php break;
}
if ($request_uri !~ "(^/.*\..*)"){
rewrite ^(.*)$ /page-handler.php break;
}
}
......nginx default settings continued
Error im facing in log file regarding the website im trying to host
2020/11/04 20:14:49 [error] 21300#0: *1 kevent() reported that connect() failed (61:
Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server:
www.freespinswizard.com, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000",
host: "freespinswizard.com"
I have no clue what is wrong in my configurations. Please any kind of help would be appreciated, thnx in advance.