Apache 2.4 with php5-fpm

April 24, 2014 126.5k views
ivangdokov
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ivangdokov
I've spent so many hours trying to make the following setup: Apache v2.4 php-fpm to work, but without any success. I am using fully updated Ubuntu Server 14.04 TLS. Most of the tutorials online are for nginx with php-fpm or Apache 2.2, but I know things have changed.
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  • mhaddy April 16, 2017

    For those trying to get PHP FPM to work with PHP 7.0, here’s what I had to do. I’m running a 512MB droplet with Apache 2.4.x and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Disabling mod_php and handing this work off to PHP FPM has made a HUGE improvement in my memory utilization and this is very important to me given I only have 512MB to work with! Prior to making the changes below, I was running >70% RAM usage (and often times >85%) and now I’m <50%.

    I opted to edit my global configuration file “/etc/apache2/conf-available/php7.0-fpm.conf” as I wanted PHP FPM enabled for all of my virtual hosts:

           <IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
                AddHandler php7-fcgi .php
                Action php7-fcgi /php7-fcgi
                Alias /php7-fcgi /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php7-fcgi
                FastCgiExternalServer /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php7-fcgi -socket /var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock -pass-heade$
                <Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin>
                        Require all granted
                </Directory>
        </IfModule>

    The <Directory …> bit was important was prior to this I was getting the following error:

    You don’t have permission to access /php7-fcgi/phpinfo.php on this server.

    I also had to create my php7.fcgi file:

    sudo touch /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php7.fcgi

    Then permission it so my web server can access it:

    sudo chown -R www-data:www /usr/lib/cgi-bin

    Couple of helpful resources I used: https://askubuntu.com/questions/378734/how-to-configure-apache-to-run-php-as-fastcgi-on-ubuntu-12-04-via-terminal and https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/apache-with-php-fpm-on-ubuntu-16-04/.

    Good luck!

  • rpodsada April 28, 2017

    Quick tip - you can avoid having to create a file in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php7.fcgi by adding ‘virtual’ to the end of Action in the block above:

    Action php7-fcgi /php7-fcgi virtual
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17 Answers
asb MOD April 24, 2014
Assuming that you're starting with a basic LAMP stack, first you need to install the needed packages: 


sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-fastcgi php5-fpm


Then create the file "/etc/apache2/conf-available/php5-fpm.conf" with the contents: 


<IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>

    AddHandler php5-fcgi .php

    Action php5-fcgi /php5-fcgi

    Alias /php5-fcgi /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi

    FastCgiExternalServer /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi -socket /var/run/php5-fpm.sock -pass-header Authorization

</IfModule>


Then enable the new mods and config: 


a2enmod actions fastcgi alias

a2enconf php5-fpm

service apache2 reload


You should be up and running. To verify, create a file called "/var/www/html/info.php" with the contents: 


<?php

phpinfo();

?>


Now you should be able to browse to http://your.ipaddress.com/info.php

You should see a lot of information about your php set up including: "Server API FPM/FastCGI "
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  • sahilkataria.1989 August 13, 2014

    I have installed Apache2.4 with PHP5-FPM and libapache2-mod-fastcgi and configure it as per this above configuration.
    PHP5-Fpm is running but when i checked using phpinfo it’s not showing FPM.
    Current Status - >
    Apache 2.0 Handler
    PHP5-FPM is running
    tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:9000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 16489/php-fpm.conf)

    Apache error logs
    FastCGI: process manager initialized (pid 16454)
    [mpmprefork:notice] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) modfastcgi/mod_fastcgi-SNAP-0910052141 PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.3 configured – resuming normal operations

    Please help me to configure it properly or let me know what i am missing.

  • kapila2414 January 26, 2016

    Thanks a lot it worked…can you elaborate your answer in brief (this did that)…thanks again

ivangdokov April 25, 2014
I've managed to launch it. Actually I did the same by myself the last few times, but I always received the following error:
`client denied by server configuration: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi`

The solution is to add this code to **/etc/apache2/conf-available/php5-fpm.conf**:
`
Require all granted

`

Credits: http://stackoverflow.com/a/23000981/1156999

PS: I accidentally added **Ruby on Rails** tag to the question. It will be nice if a moderator can remove it, please.
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asb MOD April 25, 2014
Glad you got it working! I fixed up the tags.


For anyone else, here's Ivan's addition to php5-fpm.conf with the formatting fixed: 


<Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin>

        Require all granted

</Directory>


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RyanH May 6, 2015

You may also need to switch from the apache MPM non-threaded module mpm_prefork to a threaded one.

a2dismod mpm_prefork

then

a2enmod mpm_worker
or
a2enmod mpm_event

If it’s not installed:

apt-get install apache2-mpm-worker
or
apt-get install apache2-mpm-event

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richard.mckenna June 10, 2014
Hi, thanks for the info, does any one know why I get this info back from php_info() 
Server API	Apache 2.0 Handler

PHP API	20121113

PHP Extension	20121212

Zend Extension	220121212
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  • richard.mckenna June 10, 2014
    I think you need to ensure that mod_php is disabled first: $ sudo a2dismod php5 Module php5 disabled. To activate the new configuration, you need to run: service apache2 restart
salasiapro June 28, 2014

Thanks for this.
Worked like a charm for my very first attempt.

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perkinbox July 3, 2014

In my case it worked when i moved the php5-fpm.conf to
/etc/apache2/conf-enabled/php5-fpm.conf*:

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ytsirolnik July 19, 2014

Thank you very much. Worked like charm. Andrew and Richard, thank you both

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PatrikHerman September 7, 2014

Thanks for the tutorial. I got PHP-FPM working but there are lots of issues, I had to point the default site to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi which makes sense. And after that php-files in the directory load with FPM. But no other files, html, js, jpegs doesn’t work and gives me an access denied?

I added the extensions to security.limit_extensions in php-fpm www.conf which makes html work. But not images. Shouldn’t apache handle those static files without php-fpm somehow? Anybody know how to get this working?

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Salman October 11, 2014

Just got to this thread, managed to get FPM work for my self but for some reason i was getting 500 error when I was testing the page, upon checking the apache error logs I found this

Permission denied: FastCGI: failed to connect to server “/usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi”: connect() failed
FastCGI: incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server “/usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi”

so I thought socket must have permission issues, and thats why its not connecting, my solution was 

chmod 666 /var/run/php5-fpm.sock

I defined this socket in /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf (apache 2.2)

Hope this can help someone else

and to verify if FastCGI is working for you your <?php phpinfo(); ?> page should look like
phpinfo screenshot

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shalanga May 13, 2015

@richard-mckenna was right! Must first disable mod_php before use these settings… damn, it took me hours until find this comment to save me from lost more time.

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  • Polv89 July 30, 2015

    Can you help me? I’ve installed all of things.. How can now return back and start disabling mod_php?
    Thanks

Polv89 July 21, 2015

I haven’t php-fpm on my info.php file, i’ve configured all the things explaned..
thanks

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shalanga July 30, 2015

php-fpm is apache module, there is nothing to do with info.php.

To comeback to normal just uninstall mpmwork and/or mpmevent and install mpmprefork which modphp was made of to work.

Take a learn on how apache mpm workers, it took me a while to figure this out.

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fjbejarano August 11, 2015

Hi,

I have installed php5-fpm with apache24 sucessfully. I can load phps through apache fast-cgi but when I execute a Joomla o Wordpress, for example, a I have this random error and the web is not loaded (sometimes it loads incomplete and somtimes it shows a 500 error)

Could you help me, please?

The errors are

Aug 11 09:00:14 ubuman000 kernel: [83428.495213] traps: php5-fpm[18502] general protection ip:6c6491 sp:7fffffffbe90 error:0 in php5-fpm[400000+800000]
Aug 11 09:00:17 ubuman000 kernel: [83431.615852] traps: php5-fpm[18503] general protection ip:6c6491 sp:7fffffffbe90 error:0 in php5-fpm[400000+800000]
Aug 11 09:00:18 ubuman000 kernel: [83432.470517] traps: php5-fpm[18504] general protection ip:6c6491 sp:7fffffffbe90 error:0 in php5-fpm[400000+800000]
Aug 11 09:00:19 ubuman000 kernel: [83433.324105] traps: php5-fpm[18505] general protection ip:6c6491 sp:7fffffffbe90 error:0 in php5-fpm[400000+800000]
Aug 11 09:00:20 ubuman000 kernel: [83434.146597] traps: php5-fpm[18506] general protection ip:6c6491 sp:7fffffffbe90 error:0 in php5-fpm[400000+800000]
Aug 11 09:00:51 ubuman000 kernel: [83465.346084] traps: php5-fpm[18476] general protection ip:6c6491 sp:7fffffffbe90 error:0 in php5-fpm[400000+800000]
Aug 11 09:04:21 ubuman000 kernel: [83675.351981] php5-fpm[18508]: segfault at 2020 ip 00000000006fb4b9 sp 00007fffffffbe80 error 4 in php5-fpm[400000+800000]
Aug 11 09:04:51 ubuman000 kernel: [83705.370273] php5-fpm[18509]: segfault at 2020 ip 00000000006fb4b9 sp 00007fffffffbe80 error 4 in php5-fpm[400000+800000]
Aug 11 09:05:01 ubuman000 CRON[18519]: (root) CMD (command -v debian-sa1 > /dev/null && debian-sa1 1 1)
Aug 11 09:05:21 ubuman000 kernel: [83735.343396] php5-fpm[18510]: segfault at 2020 ip 00000000006fb4b9 sp 00007fffffffbe80 error 4 in php5-fpm[400000+800000]
Aug 11 09:06:21 ubuman000 kernel: [83795.343665] php5-fpm[18511]: segfault at 2020 ip 00000000006fb4b9 sp 00007fffffffbe80 error 4 in php5-fpm[400000+800000]
Aug 11 09:07:22 ubuman000 kernel: [83855.888170] php5-fpm[18514]: segfault at 2020 ip 00000000006fb4b9 sp 00007fffffffbe80 error 4 in php5-fpm[400000+800000]

I have Ubuntu 14.04 64 bits with php5-fpm 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.11

The fast-cgi configuration

<IfModule mod_fastcgi.c>
  AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
  #FastCgiWrapper /usr/lib/apache2/suexec
  FastCgiIpcDir /var/lib/apache2/fastcgi

  # Bloque de configuración de FastCGI para PHP-FPM
  Alias /php5.fastcgi /usr/local/fastcgi/php5.fastcgi
  AddHandler php-script .php .phtml

FastCGIExternalServer /usr/local/fastcgi/php5.fastcgi -idle-timeout 300 -socket /var/run/php-fpm.sock -pass-header Authorization

  Action php-script /php5.fastcgi virtual

  # Para usar otro servidor como php server usamos host en vez de socket.
  #FastCGIExternalServer /usr/local/fastcgi/php5.fastcgi -idle-timeout 300 -host 127.0.0.1:9000 -pass-header Authorization

  # This part is not necessary to get it to work, but it stops anything else from being
  # accessed from it by mistake or maliciously.
  <Directory "/usr/local/fastcgi">
    Require all granted
    # DEPRECATED
    #Order allow,deny
    <Files "php5.fastcgi">
      # DEPRECATED
      #Order deny,allow
      Require all granted
    </Files>
  </Directory>
</IfModule>

I dont know what is happening

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sam452 January 10, 2018

Wanted to give props to you and commenters as this is the missing piece in connecting php7.1-fpm to apache2.4.

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