phpStorm problems with php-cgi

Question

So I recently change to ubuntu and I am trying to setup my environment again and I manage to install LAMP and phpmyadmin and phpstorm.

But what I can't mange to do is to run the php script from phpStorm when I try to run the program the page gives me a "502 Bad gateway" error and when I go back on phpStorm it tells me that php-cgi was not found.

I have tried to fix the problem but couldn't find any solid answer and I am so confused right now

Also I have successfully added the php interpreter and the xDebug

Answer 1

on linux ubuntu

For PHP5: sudo apt-get install php5-cgi

For PHP7: sudo apt-get install php7.0-cgi

Answer 2

I faced with the same problem. After replacing /usr/bin/php5-cgi with a little shell script I found that error

Host 'localhost' has multiple addresses. You must choose one explicitly! Couldn't create FastCGI listen socket on port localhost:56468

After commenting 127.0.0.1 localhost in /etc/hosts the problem seems to be solved. After commenting IPv6 hosts the problem seems to be solved:

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
# ::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
# ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
# ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

Answer 3

for mac:

1. install XAMPP (it's easy and straight forvard) it comes with apache and php interpreter

2. in phpstorm in settings ->php -> interpreter choose path /Applications/XAMPP/bin/php

3. phpstorm in settings -> build, ... -> Deployment add in place server, url root localhost

More info can be found on jetbrains web page

This helped me to solve this problem and run php by clicking on web browser icon inside phpstorm.

and don't forget to turn on apache in xampp --> manage servers!)

Answer 4

If it's not already done install Homebrew :

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Now, that we've Homebrew, tap php repositories by entering this on your terminal :

brew tap josegonzalez/php
brew tap homebrew/dupes

Check what options are available for PHP 5.4 :

brew options php54

Now install/build PHP 5.4 with some option (in your case PHP-FPM with CGI) :

brew install php54 --with-fpm --with-debug --with-cgi --with-libmysql --with-homebrew-curl
brew install fastcgi

Note : If you're not going to use Apache add --without-apache, if you need others things, just check the options and add what you need

Now, check if PHP-FPM is enable by typing this in your terminal :

php-fpm -v

If you get this :

PHP 5.4.24 (fpm-fcgi) Copyright (c)

1997-2013 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2013

Zend Technologies

You just installed PHP with FCGI like a boss..

Found it Here

Answer 5

Basically the who page says to do this.

1. Download the interpreter thing oh php from php.net.

2. Do make install

3. Make a file called newpath.txt and add to it

   PATH=~/custom/php5/bin:$PATH export PATH

4. Type cat newpath.txt >> .profile

I will make a youtube video and upload it.

Answer 6

I also experienced the same problem before, however to have the right PHP version installed for your current version is the first step, then before starting the IDE, ensure that you have the php7.x-cgi version installed open the terminal and input

sudo apt update && sudo apt install php7.x-cgi

replace the x with the version number, then after that you need to configure your IDE to find the path to your PHP installation directory

Answer 7

In the "PHP-CGI Server" tab in phpStorm you see the error:

/usr/bin/php-cgi -e -b localhost:52109
Host 'localhost' has multiple addresses. You must choose one explicitly!
Couldn't create FastCGI listen socket on port localhost:52109
PHP-CGI Server terminated

There curently seems not to be any fix for this known bug: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-24373 Commenting out either the IPv4 or the IPv6 address for localhost in /etc/hosts (on Linux) is a workaround.

Answer 8

I also had this problem. It depends on your version of php that you want to use it as interpreter in your PhpStorm.

This error message shows that PhpStorm needs to CGI binary to execute your code.

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 and PHP version that I have used is 7.2.

You need to install modules based on your application requirements. So you use this following command to search available PHP 7 modules in the package repository:

sudo apt-cache search php7*

Now you can see all of available modules (also for cgi) in repository. Now You must install the required PHP modules on your system as below command. Make sure to install packages for correct PHP version by specifying the version with the package name. Without defining the package version, it will install the latest package. E.g. for me, I need php7.2-cgi :

 sudo apt install php7.2-cgi

Now cgi is installed. You must restart PhpStorm and test it again. It works well for me.