Nginx, PHP5-FPM and Permission Denied Errors

After upgrading to Nginx 1.4.7 and PHP 5.4.28 (or 5.5.12), you may start seeing errors like the following:

2014/05/03 13:27:41 [crit] 4202#0: *1 connect() to unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock failed (13: Permission denied) while connecting to upstream, client: xx.xxx.xx.xx, server: localhost, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock:", host: "xx.xx.xx.xx"

The fix is to edit /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf and set the listen.mode to 666 (be sure to uncomment the line as well):

listen.mode = 0666

7 thoughts on “Nginx, PHP5-FPM and Permission Denied Errors”

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  4. Thanks this also fixed my problem. The other solutions like setting listen to 127.0.0.1:9000 also worked but that isn’t a real solution to the problem. Your solution is the real solution!

    Thanks again.

    Kind regards,
    Sander

    Reply

  6. Check which user runs nginx. As of Ubuntu 12.04 nginx runs by nginx user which is not a member of www-data group.
    sudo usermod -a -G www-data nginx
    and restarting nginx and php5-fpm daemons solves the problem.

    Reply
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