Should work on RHEL, Fedora, CentOS. Tested on CentOS 5.
Note: Before running the init script you need to touch the pid file and change the ownership to the php user
# touch /var/run/phpfcgi.pid
# chown php:php /var/run/phpfcgi.pid
Save this file as /etc/init.d/phpfcgi
#!/bin/bash
#
# Startup script for the PHP FastCGI server.
#
# chkconfig: 345 85 15
# description: PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language
# processname: php
# config: /etc/php.ini
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
PHPFCGI="/usr/bin/php-cgi"
FCGIPORT="9000"
FCGIADDR="127.0.0.1"
FCGI_WEB_SERVER_ADDRS="127.0.0.1"
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=5
PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS=1000
ALLOWED_ENV="PATH USER"
PHPUSER=php
PIDFILE=/var/run/phpfcgi.pid
if [ -z "$PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN" ]; then
PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=5
fi
ALLOWED_ENV="$ALLOWED_ENV PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS FCGI_WEB_SERVER_ADDRS"
case "$1" in
start)
PHPFCGI_START=$"Starting ${NAME} service: "
echo -n $PHPFCGI_START
# check for $PHPUSER, create if non-existent
if [ -z "`id -u $PHPUSER 2> /dev/null`" ]; then
useradd -s /sbin/nologin $PHPUSER
fi
# clean environment
E=
for i in $ALLOWED_ENV; do E="$E $i=${!i}"; done
daemon --user $PHPUSER --pidfile $PIDFILE "env - $E $PHPFCGI -q -b $FCGIADDR:$FCGIPORT &> /dev/null &"
pid=`pidof php-cgi`
if [ -n "$pid" ]; then
echo $pid > $PIDFILE
success $PHPFCGI_START
else
failure $PHPFCGI_START
fi
echo
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping php-fcgi: "
killproc -p $PIDFILE phpfcgi
echo
;;
status)
status phpfcgi
;;
restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
Ensure that the init script is executable:
# chmod +x /etc/init.d/phpfcgi
Now you should be able to stop, start, and restart PHP with the usual Red Hat commands:
# service phpfcgi start
# service phpfcgi stop
# chkconfig phpfcgi on