Below is an example of a PHP-FastCGI init script for use on Ubuntu systems.
This startup init script was copied from http://wiki.nginx.org/Ubuntu-php-fastcgi and slightly modified to keep all start up settings in the one script file. Thanks to the original author.
It can also be downloaded in full from:
http://www.networkinghowtos.com/wp-content/uploads/scripts/php-fastcgi
Remember to “chmod +x” this script to make it executable.
This file should be stored in “/etc/init.d” and set to run at startup by running the “sudo /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f php-fastcgi defaults” command.
To download and set up the init file in one go, run the following commands:
cd /etc/init.d sudo wget -O php-fastcgi "http://www.networkinghowtos.com/wp-content/uploads/scripts/php-fastcgi" sudo chmod +x php-fastcgi sudo update-rc.d -f php-fastcgi defaults
/etc/init.d/php-fastcgi contents:
#! /bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: php-fastcgi # Required-Start: $all # Required-Stop: $all # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Start and stop php-cgi in external FASTCGI mode # Description: Start and stop php-cgi in external FASTCGI mode ### END INIT INFO # Author: Kurt Zankl# Do NOT "set -e" PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin DESC="php-cgi in external FASTCGI mode" NAME=php-fastcgi DAEMON=/usr/bin/php-cgi PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME ######################################################################## # # Settings for php-cgi in external FASTCGI Mode # # Should php-fastcgi run automatically on startup? (default: no) START=yes # Which user runs PHP? (default: www-data) EXEC_AS_USER=www-data # Host and TCP port for FASTCGI-Listener (default: localhost:9000) FCGI_HOST=127.0.0.1 FCGI_PORT=9000 # Environment variables, which are processed by PHP PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=4 PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=1000 ######################################################################## # Exit if the package is not installed [ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0 # Read configuration variable file if it is present #[ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME # Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables . /lib/init/vars.sh # Define LSB log_* functions. # Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present. . /lib/lsb/init-functions # If the daemon is not enabled, give the user a warning and then exit, # unless we are stopping the daemon if [ "$START" != "yes" -a "$1" != "stop" ]; then log_warning_msg "To enable $NAME, edit /etc/init.d/$NAME and set START=yes" exit 0 fi # Process configuration export PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS DAEMON_ARGS="-q -b $FCGI_HOST:$FCGI_PORT" do_start() { # Return # 0 if daemon has been started # 1 if daemon was already running # 2 if daemon could not be started start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --test > /dev/null \ || return 1 start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON \ --background --make-pidfile --chuid $EXEC_AS_USER --startas $DAEMON -- \ $DAEMON_ARGS \ || return 2 } do_stop() { # Return # 0 if daemon has been stopped # 1 if daemon was already stopped # 2 if daemon could not be stopped # other if a failure occurred start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE > /dev/null RETVAL="$?" [ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2 # Wait for children to finish too if this is a daemon that forks # and if the daemon is only ever run from this initscript. # If the above conditions are not satisfied then add some other code # that waits for the process to drop all resources that could be # needed by services started subsequently. A last resort is to # sleep for some time. start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5 --exec $DAEMON [ "$?" = 2 ] && return 2 # Many daemons don''t delete their pidfiles when they exit. rm -f $PIDFILE return "$RETVAL" } case "$1" in start) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME" do_start case "$?" in 0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;; 2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;; esac ;; stop) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME" do_stop case "$?" in 0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;; 2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;; esac ;; restart|force-reload) log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME" do_stop case "$?" in 0|1) do_start case "$?" in 0) log_end_msg 0 ;; 1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running *) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start esac ;; *) # Failed to stop log_end_msg 1 ;; esac ;; *) echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2 exit 3 ;; esac :