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I have this CentOS 6.9 VPS server with cpanel and WHM, running Apache 2 with PHP 5.6

Ive enabled PHP-FPM on WHM and it shows as active in both WHM and Cpanel (in the MultiPHP manager sections)

To be sure, I even copied it to the conf where Im setting my vhost.

And PHP-FPM seems to be running, according to its logs ("NOTICE: ready to handle connections" on the php-fpm error.log)

But when I go see phpinfo(), it still says:

Server API CGI/FastCGI

So what am I missing? How to debug this? Ive restarted apache and php-fpm many times, and even rebooted the server, to no avail

EDIT: actually, I was wrong: I didint have that on my vhost config:

<IfModule proxy_fcgi_module>
<FilesMatch \.(phtml|php[0-9]*)$>
SetHandler proxy:unix:/opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/usr/var/run/php-fpm/fc680a9025c37fd635d3cad33dda11786afdf8c0.sock|fcgi://domain.tld
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

It must have been overwrote by something. Now if I place it there I get an error: 

No input file specified.

Even when I try to access the script with just phpinfo() on it

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cPanelMichael gives an answer at this cPanel forum page that might help to clarify: https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/php-handlers-in-easyapache4.592879/

Essentially, the way PHP-FPM is implemented in cPanel at the moment, it can only be enabled per domain, but isn't actually available as a global or system-wide PHP handler. So globally, you can have DSO, suPHP, or fcgi as your global handler, but then be able to enable PHP-FPM for a specific domain. However, if phpinfo(), when called from the domain for which you've enabled PHP-FPM, isn't showing any evidence of PHP-FPM working for that domain, then there may be an issue that a systems administrator at your data host with root access to your server would be in a much better position to investigate.

Does your phpinfo() at least show --enable-fpm or --with-fpm-systemd in the Configure Command section? Does php-fpm show as 'active' under the cgi-fcgi section further down the phpinfo() page? Is there a fpm.config directive? I'd say if you find at least the configure command options, you might be fine. If Ctrl+F -> 'fpm' doesn't return any results, however, again I'd contact the technical support at the data hosting company you're hosting your cPanel account with.

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  • no to everything, no mention of fpm anywhere on the info. Ill keep trying a bit more (I do have root access for the VPS)
    – diogo.abdalla
    Commented Feb 2, 2018 at 20:17
  • also, my description of the problem was wrong, Ive updated the question. Please see if that provides any useful information
    – diogo.abdalla
    Commented Feb 2, 2018 at 20:20
  • If your vhost config is in the main httpd.conf, your changes are liable to get overwritten by cPanel updates without proper distillation of the Apache configuration (which is a term used to describe the process of informing cPanel of your changes so that cPanel preserves them across rebuilds). However, in a functional cPanel environment, it shouldn't be necessary to manually set PHP-FPM in that way. If Enabling it in the multiphp section of WHM, or from within a domain's cPanel, is failing, then a vhost entry is a workaround at best. Are you accessing phpinfo() from the domain your testing?
    – gluonman
    Commented Feb 2, 2018 at 20:30
  • yep, from the same domain. Ive tried to manually set PHP-FPM because just activating it from the pannel wanst working. Also,l Ive separated my vhosts from the http.conf now
    – diogo.abdalla
    Commented Feb 2, 2018 at 21:13
  • Even separating out your vhosts from the main config file, you probably have to place an include statement in your main config file, which itself could get overridden. I also manage a cPanel server, and I avoid directly modifying the Apache configuration and simply make changes to it through the WHM interface, so that my changes are preserved in cPanel's config templates. Must you make a direct mod to the Apache conf without going through cPanel, run '/usr/local/cpanel/bin/apache_conf_distiller --update' afterward, but even that no longer guarantees cPanel won't overwrite your changes ever.
    – gluonman
    Commented Feb 2, 2018 at 21:21

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