Why is Perl Cgiwrap Sock refusing connection to nginx?

Question

Could anyone shed some light on the following line in my nginx error logs. I'm trying to get Perl and Nginx talking to each other, but so far no success.

unix:/var/run/nginx/cgiwrap-dispatch.sock failed (111: Connection refused)2011/11/20 09:18:34 [error] 24054#0: *1186 connect() to unix:/var/run/nginx/cgiwrap-dispatch.sock failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 150.101.221.75, server: example.com, request: "GET /dspam.cgi HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/nginx/cgiwrap-dispatch.sock:", host: "example.com"

The relevant nginx configs.

location ~ \.cgi$ {
        gzip off;
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
        fastcgi_index index.pl;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/dspam$fastcgi_script_name;
}

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 20 '11 at 15:40

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I haven't experience the Connection refused yet but my guess would be that the nginx process does not have the user rights to write to /var/run/nginx/cgiwrap-dispatch.sock, check the file permissions and user.

If it's a Debian user should most likely be www-data.

answered Nov 20 '11 at 15:40

ZaphodB

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Yes, I've already checked that and the the group and user are set to www-data – Emmanuel Nov 21 '11 at 02:28
Could it be that nginx is running as user nobody and group nogroup or something, and not with www-data GID? – adamo Aug 24 '16 at 17:52

Why is Perl Cgiwrap Sock refusing connection to nginx?

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