I have to ask

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I assume you will be using Docker.  I'm very interested in hearing about 
your journey.

On 2024-12-11 16:57, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> I think I'm going to try this, this weekend, using Docker Compose, to
> see if it's any easier.
> 
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> Thanks,
> Alexander
> 
> Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro
> 
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024, 16:50 Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss
> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> Setting up php-fpm _should_ be easy and the defaults should work for
>> most people; I only skimmed the other thread but it looks like you
>> ran into what a lot of people run into, except that since it's more
>> than one program running you can't just "chmod 777" your way out of
>> it.
>> 
>> Nginx is running as one user, typically either "nginx" or
>> "www-data", while php-fpm will run as a different user, such as
>> "php" or "php-fpm".
>> 
>> The files must at least be executable by the php-fpm process, thus
>> they should typically be owned by whatever user php-fpm is running
>> as. Similarly, nginx needs to be able to talk to the socket that
>> php-fpm creates, which is by default the same user it's running as
>> but that can be changed. So, either nginx and php-fpm need to be
>> running as the same user (not very secure) or you need to change the
>> configuration of php-fpm to create the socket as the user nginx is
>> running as.
>> 
>> Once you do that, assuming you've also wired up nginx correctly,
>> everything should just work.
>> 
>> I hope that in the process of getting everything working you learned
>> and understood why you were making the changes you were making
>> rather than just throwing things at the wall and see what sticks.
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024, at 2:39 PM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Has anyone had the experience I just had.  Over maybe 6 weeks I
>>> spend 40
>>> 
>>> or more hours trying to learn and install PHP-FPM.  I did not know
>>> 
>>> 
>>> anything about PHP-FPM however I was told I needed it if I were to
>>> build
>>> 
>>> a local (VirtualBox) LAMP server for development and testing.
>>> 
>>> I asked Chat how to configure a LAMP server to use FPM.  It spit
>>> out the
>>> 
>>> config with instructions on how so go about getting things
>>> configured.
>>> 
>>> As I used what chat told me I would run into an issue.  Chat would
>>> help
>>> 
>>> with more advice.
>>> 
>>> I got really close maybe within the last week.
>>> 
>>> It now works... Yikes!!!!!
>>> 
>>> The good side is I know a lot more about Ubuntu!!!
>>> 
>>> Keith
>>> 
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