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Following some nice instructions I am almost through setting up PHP to run on nginx. However, every time I try to start spawn-fcgi I get an error message 

demo@desktop:/usr/bin$ sudo /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi start spawn-fcgi: bind failed: Cannot assign requested address

My /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi startup script is:

#!/bin/bash PHP_SCRIPT=/usr/bin/php-fastcgi FASTCGI_USER=demo RETVAL=0 case "$1" in start) su - $FASTCGI_USER -c $PHP_SCRIPT RETVAL=$? ;; stop) killall -9 php5-cgi RETVAL=$? ;; restart) killall -9 php5-cgi su - $FASTCGI_USER -c $PHP_SCRIPT RETVAL=$? ;; *) echo "Usage: php-fastcgi {start|stop|restart}" exit 1 ;; esac exit $RETVAL console output

which loads /usr/bin/php-fastcgi

#!/bin/sh /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -a 127.0.0.1 -p 9000 -C 6 -u demo -f /usr/bin/php5-cgi

One thing to note is that I am running the PHP cgi as the user "demo" which is my account.

update

I manually ran the spawn-fcgi command and it worked. Strange...

sudo /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -a 127.0.0.1 -p 9000 -C 6 -u demo -f /usr/bin/php5-cgi
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Is something else listening on port 9000?

netstat -tnap | grep LIST | grep 9000

On the other hand, I'd recommend to strace the start script to check the system calls:

sudo strace -f -o strace.output /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi start

Then take a look at the file strace.output, especially the last few lines. strace is always good to "enlighten" the way.

Hope this helps.

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  • netstat returns nothing and I think if the port was used spawn-fcgi would say something like "port already in use". I tried strace and ended up with a file thousands and thousands of lines long. O_o Commented May 24, 2010 at 2:24
  • @Xenocross: Indeed, but I've seen some misleading error messages confusing ports and address :) Commented May 24, 2010 at 10:12
  • The netstat command should read: netstat -tnap | grep LIST | grep 9000 Commented Dec 19, 2011 at 22:59

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