By patbell101
On a new droplet I have been working through the tutorial “How To Install Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP (LEMP stack) in Ubuntu 16.04” and am stuck with the php test failing with a 502 bad gateway. I have gone thru several times and can find no errors. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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I got some ips blocking my sites, bad gateway error, seems they’re coming from Rusia, China and so on. I have to restart my fpm several times to have my apps up and running. is there any issue with fpm in droplets?
Edit the file /etc/php/7.0/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
And uncomment or add the following lines.
listen.owner = www-data
listen.group = www-data
listen.mode = 0660
If you are running Nginx as a different user, change www-data to that user. By default it will run as www-data.
You may have to delete the file /var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock if it exists.
Now run the commands below.
sudo service nginx restart
sudo service php7.0-fpm restart
For those reading post 2022 (Aug) looking for a solution. This issue occurred with NGINX Ubuntu 22.x and the solution was: reinstall/update php from the console:
apt install php8.1-fpm php-mysql
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