Trouble Installing Nginx and php5-fpm on Debian 7.3 - php

Question

I have a Debian 7.3 installation in a VM that I am practising installing Nginx and php5-fpm on. I got the Nginx working, by assigning it a manual port of :8080 and that points to /var/www/ for data and in that directory is an index.html and info.php file.
The config file for my Nginx is located at /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf and looks like this:
server {
listen 8080;
root /var/www;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name localhost;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
}
location /doc/ {
alias /usr/share/doc/;
autoindex on;
allow 127.0.0.1;
allow ::1;
deny all;
}
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/www;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
#fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
I have tried changing fastcgi_pass both ways:
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
and also as:
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
In my /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf file I have the following configuration:
[www]
user = www-data
group = www-data
listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
;listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock
Here too, I have uncommented the line to match in the Nginx default.conf file.
In my php.ini file I have edited it so that it shows cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0 as required by most of the guides I have seen.
When I try to load nginx, it runs OK. When I try to run php5-fpm this is what happens:
root#debianx86:/# /etc/init.d/php5-fpm status
[FAIL] php5-fpm is not running ... failed!
root#debianx86:/# /etc/init.d/php5-fpm reload
[ ok ] Reloading PHP5 FastCGI Process Manager: php5-fpm.
root#debianx86:/# /etc/init.d/php5-fpm restart
[FAIL] Restarting PHP5 FastCGI Process Manager: php5-fpm failed!
root#debianx86:/# /etc/init.d/php5-fpm start
root#debianx86:/# /etc/init.d/php5-fpm status
[FAIL] php5-fpm is not running ... failed!
root#debianx86:/#
I then open up any of the browsers on my VM and point them to either 127.0.0.1:8080 or localhost:8080 and I get the custom index.html loading that I made and it works! So I then try to load theinfo.php file and I get presented with a 404 Not Found - nginx/1.4.4.
I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. Is there something I'm missing from all this?
I installed nginx from sudo apt-get -y install nginx and sudo apt-get -y install php5-fpm too. Any dependencies they required would have been installed along with that.
Is there a script that I can run on a fresh install of Debian 7.3 that someone has got that will install it properly for me, and make all the modifications so that nginx and php5-fpm are up and running? I've looked over many of the websites with the instructions and I seem to be doing pretty much everything they do, except for the default-sites and enabled-sites, as neither of those folders exist for me, and I don't want to run my virtual hosts like that. I will run them with their own servers listed in the default.conf file.
EDIT: I have even tried following this article at DigitalOcean and it still doesn't work.
EDIT #2: I also did chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www to ensure that the user and group match the information in the www.conf file. I also tried by changing it back to the original root:root specs too. Still nothing.

Answer 1

I think maybe port 9000 is already being used, so php5-fpm can't bind with that port and fails to start.
in the fpm pool settings swap the line of port 9000 with the line with the sock file, then try to start php5-fpm like you were doing, if it works then all you need is to update the nginx configuratuin to proxy pass to the sock file instead of the port.