am getting a 502 bad getway nginx/1.10.3 (Ubuntu) on my php application on digital ocean droplet

Posted on November 15, 2018

I had my php application working fine, i think one day it upgraded itself and now my web application has an error. i have searched online for a possible solution. i have checked my error logs it says "connect() to unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock failed (2: No such file or directory) while connecting to upstream, ". i cant seem to locate the php7.0-fpm.sock but their is php7.0-fpm.pid file. please help me. i have tried almost everything. i am new in the development world. any help will be appreciated. thank you in advance

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Bobby

August 11, 2019

Hello,

It looks like that your PHP-FPM sock file is either missing or incorectly specified in your Nginx config. What I would suggest here is following the instructions here in Step 3 on how to configure PHP-FPM and Nginx:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-lemp-stack-ubuntu-18-04

Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby