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Nginx & PHP-FPM systemd services.

Nginx & PHP-FPM systemd services

A basic set of systemd units for starting Nginx and PHP-FPM daemons on system startup.

  • Ensures Nginx web server has started before the PHP-FPM process.
  • Nginx pid file placed at /run/nginx.pid.
  • PHP-FPM pid file placed at /run/php7/php-fpm.pid, PHP7 PHP-FPM config at /etc/php7.
  • Based on usage with Ubuntu 16.04LTS / 18.04LTS.

Unit files are placed in /etc/systemd/system and enabled with:

$ sudo systemctl enable nginx.service
$ sudo systemctl enable php-fpm.service

Fin.

[Unit]
Description=Nginx HTTP server
After=local-fs.target
After=network.target
[Service]
PIDFile=%t/nginx.pid
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/nginx
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
Type=forking
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
[Unit]
Description=PHP FastCGI process manager
After=local-fs.target
After=network.target
After=nginx.service
[Service]
PIDFile=%t/php7/php-fpm.pid
ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir --parents %t/php7
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/php-fpm --fpm-config /etc/php7/php-fpm.conf --nodaemonize
ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR2 $MAINPID
Type=simple
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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axpatito commented Feb 8, 2018

Awesome! Thanks dude!

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RonnyW0ng commented Jan 10, 2019

Thanks!It was helpful for me

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