php5-fpm shuts down automatically for no apparent reason

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I have an ubuntu 14 server running nginx. I use it for a WordPress website

Out of the blue for no reason the php5-fpm shuts down automatically (I am not sure it even is called shutdown, I get the nginx error page).

This is the message I get now on my site::

An error occurred.

Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable. Please try again later.

If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should check the error log for details.

Faithfully yours, nginx.

I restarted the php5-fpm from the command line and my site goes up for 30-40 seconds and then it goes down again.

What can be the reason? How can the php5-fpm decided on itself to do this? If it helps I'll add that this is a digital ocean server

Thanks upfront!

Is there any useful error output in `/var/log/nginx/error.log` ? That's usally the first place to look when debugging an issue like this. — andrewsomething, Jan 05 '15 at 14:56
Would be helpful if you had some error logs and configurations to post. — Diemuzi, Jan 13 '15 at 01:01
Have you configure your php processor and nginx to use our php processor. — J Prakash, Feb 08 '15 at 12:26

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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I faced the same problem, Click here! to solve.

Its because your resource was fully utilized by xmlrpc.php. Possibly Brute force attack.

Block access to xmlrpc.php in nginx config.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:28

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answered Apr 29 '16 at 19:12

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