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FastCGI Process Manager (FPM)
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## Configuration

FPM uses php.ini syntax for its configuration file - php-fpm.conf, and pool configuration files.

### List of global php-fpm.conf directives

`pid` string

  Path to PID file. Default value: none.

`error_log` string

  Path to error log file. Default value: #INSTALL_PREFIX#/log/php-fpm.log.

`log_level` string

  Error log level. Possible values: alert, error, warning, notice, debug. Default value: notice.

`emergency_restart_threshold` int

  If this number of child processes exit with SIGSEGV or SIGBUS within the time interval set by emergency_restart_interval then FPM will restart. A value of 0 means 'Off'. Default value: 0 (Off).

`emergency_restart_interval` mixed

  Interval of time used by emergency_restart_interval to determine when a graceful restart will be initiated. This can be useful to work around accidental corruptions in an accelerator's shared memory. Available Units: s(econds), m(inutes), h(ours), or d(ays). Default Unit: seconds. Default value: 0 (Off).

`process_control_timeout` mixed

  Time limit for child processes to wait for a reaction on signals from master. Available units: s(econds), m(inutes), h(ours), or d(ays) Default Unit: seconds. Default value: 0.

`daemonize` boolean

  Send FPM to background. Set to 'no' to keep FPM in foreground for debugging. Default value: yes.

### List of pool directives

With FPM you can run several pools of processes with different setting. These are settings that can be tweaked per pool.

`listen` string

  The address on which to accept FastCGI requests. Valid syntaxes are: 'ip.add.re.ss:port', 'port', '/path/to/unix/socket'. This option is mandatory for each pool.

`listen.backlog` int

  Set listen(2) backlog. A value of '-1' means unlimited. Default value: -1.

`listen.allowed_clients` string

  List of ipv4 addresses of FastCGI clients which are allowed to connect. Equivalent to the FCGI_WEB_SERVER_ADDRS environment variable in the original PHP FastCGI (5.2.2+). Makes sense only with a tcp listening socket. Each address must be separated by a comma. If this value is left blank, connections will be accepted from any ip address. Default value: any.

`listen.owner` string

  Set permissions for unix socket, if one is used. In Linux, read/write permissions must be set in order to allow connections from a web server. Many BSD-derived systems allow connections regardless of permissions. Default values: user and group are set as the running user, mode is set to 0666.

`listen.group` string

  See listen.owner.

`listen.mode` string

  See listen.owner.

`user` string

  Unix user of FPM processes. This option is mandatory.

`group` string

  Unix group of FPM processes. If not set, the default user's group is used.

`pm` string

  Choose how the process manager will control the number of child processes. Possible values: static, ondemand, dynamic. This option is mandatory.

  static - the number of child processes is fixed (pm.max_children).

  ondemand - the processes spawn on demand (when requested, as opposed to dynamic, where pm.start_servers are started when the service is started.

  dynamic - the number of child processes is set dynamically based on the following directives: pm.max_children, pm.start_servers, pm.min_spare_servers, pm.max_spare_servers.

`pm.max_children` int

  The number of child processes to be created when pm is set to static and the maximum number of child processes to be created when pm is set to dynamic. This option is mandatory.

  This option sets the limit on the number of simultaneous requests that will be served. Equivalent to the ApacheMaxClients directive with mpm_prefork and to the PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN environment variable in the original PHP FastCGI.

`pm.start_servers` int

  The number of child processes created on startup. Used only when pm is set to dynamic. Default Value: min_spare_servers + (max_spare_servers - min_spare_servers) / 2.

`pm.min_spare_servers` int

  The desired minimum number of idle server processes. Used only when pm is set to dynamic. Also mandatory in this case.

`pm.max_spare_servers` int

  The desired maximum number of idle server processes. Used only when pm is set to dynamic. Also mandatory in this case.

`pm.max_requests` int

  The number of requests each child process should execute before respawning. This can be useful to work around memory leaks in 3rd party libraries. For endless request processing specify '0'. Equivalent to PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS. Default value: 0.

`pm.status_path` string

  The URI to view the FPM status page. If this value is not set, no URI will be recognized as a status page. Default value: none.

`ping.path` string

  The ping URI to call the monitoring page of FPM. If this value is not set, no URI will be recognized as a ping page. This could be used to test from outside that FPM is alive and responding. Please note that the value must start with a leading slash (/).

`ping.response` string

  This directive may be used to customize the response to a ping request. The response is formatted as text/plain with a 200 response code. Default value: pong.

`request_terminate_timeout` mixed

  The timeout for serving a single request after which the worker process will be killed. This option should be used when the 'max_execution_time' ini option does not stop script execution for some reason. A value of '0' means 'Off'. Available units: s(econds)(default), m(inutes), h(ours), or d(ays). Default value: 0.

`request_slowlog_timeout` mixed

  The timeout for serving a single request after which a PHP backtrace will be dumped to the 'slowlog' file. A value of '0' means 'Off'. Available units: s(econds)(default), m(inutes), h(ours), or d(ays). Default value: 0.

`slowlog` string

  The log file for slow requests. Default value: #INSTALL_PREFIX#/log/php-fpm.log.slow.

`rlimit_files` int

  Set open file descriptor rlimit. Default value: system defined value.

`rlimit_core` int

  Set max core size rlimit. Possible Values: 'unlimited' or an integer greater or equal to 0. Default value: system defined value.

`chroot` string

  Chroot to this directory at the start. This value must be defined as an absolute path. When this value is not set, chroot is not used.

`chdir` string

  Chdir to this directory at the start. This value must be an absolute path. Default value: current directory or / when chroot.

`catch_workers_output` boolean

  Redirect worker stdout and stderr into main error log. If not set, stdout and stderr will be redirected to /dev/null according to FastCGI specs. Default value: no.

It's possible to pass additional environment variables and update PHP settings of a certain pool. To do this, you need to add the following options to the pool configuration file.

Example #1 Passing environment variables and PHP settings to a pool

    env[HOSTNAME] = $HOSTNAME
    env[PATH] = /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
    env[TMP] = /tmp
    env[TMPDIR] = /tmp
    env[TEMP] = /tmp

    php_admin_value[sendmail_path] = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f www@my.domain.com
    php_flag[display_errors] = off
    php_admin_value[error_log] = /var/log/fpm-php.www.log
    php_admin_flag[log_errors] = on
    php_admin_value[memory_limit] = 32M

PHP settings passed with php_value or php_flag will overwrite their previous value. Please note that defining disable_functions or disable_classes will not overwrite previously defined php.ini values, but will append the new value instead.

Settings defined with php_admin_value and php_admin_flag cannot be overriden with ini_set().

As of 5.3.3, PHP settings are also possible to be set in webserver.

Example #2 set PHP settings in nginx.conf

    set $php_value "pcre.backtrack_limit=424242";
    set $php_value "$php_value \n pcre.recursion_limit=99999";
    fastcgi_param  PHP_VALUE $php_value;

    fastcgi_param  PHP_ADMIN_VALUE "open_basedir=/var/www/htdocs";

Caution

Because these settings are passed to php-fpm as fastcgi headers, php-fpm should not be bound to a worldwide accessible address. Otherwise, anyone could alter the PHP configuration options. See also listen.allowed_clients.

Installation
Installation of PECL extensions
FastCGI Process Manager (FPM)
PHP Manual