Are you looking for a solution to the error Phpfpm Failed to start? Here’s how we fix it.

PHP-FPM is a daemon especially useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites.

Often we face error Phpfpm Failed to start, which can be due to various reasons mainly too many requests of PHP services.

At Bobcares, we often get requests from our customers to fix errors related to Phpfpm as part of our Server Management Services.

Today, let’s get into the details on how our Support Engineers help our customers to fix this error.

Why Phpfpm Failed to start error occurs?

Now, let’s discuss why this error occurs.

When a web server has a request, the Fast CGI forward this to PHP-FPM service. Thereafter, PHP-FPM then compiles and executes the PHP script, and output back to the web server.

Then PHP-FPM waits for the next request and this process continues. This way of processing PHP scripts provide higher processing performance. In effect, it expedites the website loading.

Sometimes the PHP-FPM will fail to start and stops its service which leads to disturbance in the working of the website.

The error occurs, due to the too much request for the PHP-FPM in the server.

For instance, the error appears as follows:

Let’s see in detail how our Support Engineers fix this error.

How we resolve the problem?

At Bobcares, where we have more than a decade of expertise in managing servers, we see many customers face error Phpfpm Failed to start.

Now, let’s see how our Support Engineers fix this error.

Too many requests

Recently, one of our customers approached us with the error ‘Phpfpm Failed to start‘.

We initially checked the processes running in the server and its load through top command.

After analysis, we traced the PID of the PHP-FPM service and then killed the php-fpm process.

kill -pid

After killing all process ID(pid) of PHP-FPM,  we then restarted Apache service.

service apache restart

Thereafter, restarting the service, we could trace the PHP-FPM problem as resolved.

Altering configuration file

Recently, another customer encountered PHP-FPM failed error during a fresh installation of PHP-FPM. On further investigation, we traced that the error occurred as a result of the mistake in the php-fpm.conf file.

We identified that in the new installation the pid file directive was commented in the php-fpm.conf file. Thereafter, we removed the ‘;’ to write the pid file.

After removing this start command didn’t have problems locating the pid file in the default location.

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Conclusion

In short, PHP-FPM service is very useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. The Phpfpm Failed to start problem can be easily identified and rectified. Today, we saw how our Support Engineers fix this error.