PHP-FPM and Nginx: 502 Bad Gateway

Question

Configuration

• Ubuntu Server 11.10 64 bit
• Amazon AWS, Ec2, hosted on the cloud
• t1.micro instance

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Answer 1

In your NGINX vhost file, in location block which processes your PHP files (usually location ~ \.php$ {) through FastCGI, make sure you have next lines:

proxy_buffer_size          128k;
proxy_buffers              4 256k;
proxy_busy_buffers_size    256k;
fastcgi_buffer_size        16k;
fastcgi_buffers            4 16k;

After that don't forget to restart fpm and nginx.

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Additional:

NGINX vhost paths

• /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ - Linux
• '/usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/' - Mac

Restart NGINX:

• sudo service nginx restart - Linux
• brew service restart nginx - Mac

Restart FPM:

Determine fpm process name: - systemctl list-unit-files | grep fpm - Linux - brew services list | grep php - Mac

and then restart it with:

• sudo service restart - Linux
• brew services restart - Mac