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While trying to configure php-cgi on a CentOS 5 server running nginx, I run into this:

[root@~~~~~~~ run]# /etc/init.d/php_cgi start

Starting php-cgi: spawn-fcgi: child exited with: 255

                                                      [FAILED]

I'm not 100% sure what's happening here, but no Google result returns anything regarding error code 255.

I was following [this guide][1] to set up php-cgi. What could the problem be?

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EJay
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lighttpd and lighttpd-fastcgi both don't provide the binary that is supposed to be started with the script he provides. (/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi).

You'd better ask the guy who wrote the tutorial where he get /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi because on my server there is no way to install it with yum. He says "Install spawn-fcgi package using yum command" but it doesn't work.

Make sure you use the same repositories than him, with the same version of centos.

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  • yum install spawn-fcgi worked for me though. =\ – EJay Oct 15 '10 at 12:50
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    You may find you get better use out of PHP-FPM; PHP-FPM has been included in the PHP source code since 5.3.2. It negates the need for spawn-fcgi. I'm having a lot of success with it and Nginx. – Andrew Taylor Jan 25 '11 at 10:21
  • Do note that FPM support is not enabled in RHEL's RPMs, so if you plan on having your distribution continue to provide security updates for your PHP version, stick with spawn-fcgi from EPEL. It works fine. – jgoldschrafe Oct 06 '11 at 16:24
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To solve this issue, I deleted /etc/sysconfig/spawn-fcgi

It appears to be working now.

Edit:

Sorry, this is not the solution.

When installing php-cli it will install a php-fpm, not the original php-cli.

Remove all php packages yum remove php*and try to install the php53 binaries yum install php53*.

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