Fastcgi error with apache2

Question

The guide i followed: http://www.howtoforge.com/using-php5-fpm-with-apache2-on-ubuntu-11.10-p2

The error I am getting:

 root@server:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart WARNING: MaxClients (10) must be at least as large as ThreadsPerChild (25). Automatically increasing MaxClients to 25. Syntax error on line 45 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mysite.net: FastCgiExternalServer: redefinition of previously defined class "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi" Action 'configtest' failed. The Apache error log may have more information. ...fail! 

The offending line 45:

FastCgiExternalServer /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi -socket /tmp/php5-fpm.sock -pass-header Authorization 

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

Its likely that you've already defined /usr/lib/cgi-bin/php5-fcgi somewhere else. This can only be defined once, and you probably want this in your /etc/apache2/sites/default directory as the instructions indicate. You can see if you're defining it elsewhere by running:

grep -RIs "FastCgiExternalServer" /etc/apache2