Resolved Enable a PHP socket for nginx for custom website outside Plesk

[mr-wolf]

I have created an autodiscovery for mail that uses 5 Plesk servers.
For this I use nginx and a PHP-socket.

In /etc/nginx/conf.d I have this file:

/etc/nginx/conf.d/zz005_autodiscover.conf

server {
    listen *:80;
    server_name ~^autoconfig\.[a-z0-9-]+\.[a-z0-9-]+$;

    root  /var/www/autoconfig_autodiscover;

    index index.html;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/autoconfig_autodiscover/error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/autoconfig_autodiscover/access.log combined;

    location /mail/config-v1.1.xml {
      try_files $uri /config-v1.1.xml.php?$args;
      rewrite ^(.+)$ /config-v1.1.xml.php?$1 last;
    }


   location ~ config-v1\.1\.xml\.php$ {
     try_files $uri =404;
     include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
     fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
     fastcgi_index index.php;
     fastcgi_param SERVER_FQDN  $host;
     fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
     fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
     fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
   }
}


server {
    listen *:443 ssl;
    server_name ~^[a-z0-9-]+-[a-z0-9-]+\.provider.com$;
    root  /var/www/autoconfig_autodiscover;

    error_log /var/log/nginx/autoconfig_autodiscover/error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/autoconfig_autodiscover/access.log combined;

    ssl_certificate             /root/.ssh/wildcard.provider.com.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key         /root/.ssh/wildcard.provider.com.key;

    ssl_stapling on;
    ssl_stapling_verify on;

    ssl_session_timeout         5m;

    # ssl_protocols               SSLv2 SSLv3 TLSv1;
    ssl_protocols               TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    ssl_ciphers                 HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers   on;
    ssl_dhparam /etc/ssl/certs/dhparam.pem;

    client_max_body_size 1m;

    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    location /autodiscover/autodiscover.xml {
      try_files $uri /autodiscover.xml.php?$args;
      rewrite ^(.+)$ /autodiscover.xml.php?$1 last;
    }

   location ~ autodiscover\.xml\.php$ {
     try_files $uri =404;
     include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
     fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
     fastcgi_index index.php;
     fastcgi_param SERVER_FQDN  $host;
     fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
     fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
     fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
    }
}

By examining the server with netstat I saw that on 1 server it was running on tcp port 9000
On that server I could use

fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;

on 3 other servers it was a unix socket and there I use

fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock

On the 5th server I have a problem.
There is no socket already running.
I read this page: https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/install-nginx-and-php-fpm-running-on-unix-file-sockets/

But when I go to /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d I can see that Plesk deliberately turned off by making a new www.conf and renaming the original one to www.conf.saved_by_psa

I don't have that much experience with how this is used and I'm a bit afraid to break something.

The whole autoconfiguration / autodiscovery system is working now and it would be a shame if this server stops me from implementing it.

 

[UFHH01]

Hi mr-wolf,

But when I go to /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d I can see that Plesk deliberately turned off by making a new www.conf and renaming the original one to www.conf.saved_by_psa

Pls. feel free to add unique PHP - configuration files, as the one called "www.conf" ( provided as standart from the PHP - vendor ). Plesk just renames this file to limit resource usage on your server for possible service - instances, that you might not need.
On our servers, we use unique FPM - configuration files for EACH PHP version on the servers, named as "www_modified-by-admin.conf", to prevent Plesk from renaming them.

 

[mr-wolf]

Hi mr-wolf,


Pls. feel free to add unique PHP - configuration files, as the one called "www.conf" ( provided as standart from the PHP - vendor ). Plesk just renames this file to limit resource usage on your server for possible service - instances, that you might not need.
On our servers, we use unique FPM - configuration files for EACH PHP version on the servers, named as "www_modified-by-admin.conf", to prevent Plesk from renaming them.

Thank you very much...
That worked.

It is working on 127.0.0.1:9000
It turned out that one of the 4 also had the same problem.
The original config was using a unix socket and that didn't work (/var/run/php5-fpm.sock)
I switched it to an IP / port