Thank you for the feedback. I want to do some tests on a VM albeit the
versions are old.

I started php-fpm and opened localhost/index.php
This time I see the content of index.php as a plain text.
I have to do more debugging. Thanks.



Regards,
Mahmood




On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 4:53 PM Francis Daly <francis@daoine.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 03:58:30PM +0330, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> > For a test, I have installed nginx 1.0.15 with php 5.3 on an Ubuntu
> 14.04.
>
> > At the same time, I see this entry in /usr/local/nginx/logs/error.log
> >
> > 2020/03/15 15:50:20 [error] 4808#0: *5 connect() failed (111: Connection
> > refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server:
> > localhost, request: "GET /public_html/index.php HTTP/1.1", upstream:
> > "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000", host: "localhost"
> >
> >
> > Why I get connection refused?
> > What else should I check for more debugging?
>
> nginx does not "do" php. nginx expects that you have a separate thing
> -- in this case, a fastcgi server listening on tcp port 9000 -- that
> handles php.
>
> "Connection refused" suggests that you are not running a fastcgi server
> there that nginx can access.
>
> You will want to find the Ubuntu method of running the PHP fastcgi
> service, possibly called "php-fpm"; and making sure that it is listening
> for requests in the place where your nginx does "fasctgi_pass" to.
>
> (As an aside -- the version numbers you mention are not the newest. It
> is possible that there are some bugs in those versions that mean that
> they do not work well together. If that happens, then you may have more
> debugging to do, or choose to use newer versions of things.)
>
> And also -- based on your config, you probably want to make a request for
> http://localhost/index.php, not http://localhost/public_html/index.php.
> But that will only matter after the current error is resolved.
>
> Good luck with it,
>
> f
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