PHP-FPM Troubles

[Gene Steinberg]

Having just migrated from a cPanel server. I am intrigued by PHP-FPM. There's no equivalent on cPanel.

But your Plesk manual provides no documentation whatever beyond a basic description. Yes, I have checked the online information, and forwarded to my web guy to review.

In my tests, it works more efficiently with PHP 5.6.x and Zend Opcache; sites seem faster.

But I have a problem, and again my webmaster is stumped because he's not familiar with PHP-FPM.

Here's the situation:

We offer premium forum memberships via the XenForo Resource Manager. Our main products consist of ad-free versions of my syndicated radio shows, plus extra podcasts and other content.

To make it easier for members to listen to the radio shows on iTunes and other podcast apps, the webmaster made a special RSS feed with PHP that requires authentication to access, using member names and passwords.

Works fine in FastCGI (and on our former cPanel server with Mod Ruid and DSO).

But the authentication breaks with PHP-FPM. It puts up a prompt constantly asking for user password. The two domains that offer the premium memberships were reverted to FastCGI.

I presume changes need to be made to the PHP code to allow for that to work with PHP-FPM.

If anyone can provide guidance, let me know. I'd be happy to provide the PHP code in a private conversation to anyone who wants to diagnose.

Thanks.

Peace,
Gene

 

[MisterU]

Does your product have any debug mode? Are there any PHP errors in log files? Did you check if php session works?