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The Website Was Down

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Captain: What happen?
Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb!

So yeah, my blog was off the air for a couple of days. So what happened?

This is what /var/log/nginx/error.log told me:

2016/06/27 08:48:46 [error] 22758#0: *21197
connect() to unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock failed (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) while connecting to upstream, client: 194.187.170.206, server: blog.amedee.be, request: "GET /wuala-0 HTTP/1.0", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock:", host:
"amedee.be"

So I asked Doctor Google “connect() to unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock failed (11: resource temporarily unavailable)” and got this answer from StackOverflow:

The issue is socket itself, its problems on high-load cases is well-known. Please consider using TCP/IP connection instead of unix socket, for that you need to make these changes:

  • in php-fpm pool configuration replace listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock with listen = 127.0.0.1:7777
  • in /etc/nginx/php_location replace fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock; with fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:7777;

followed by a carefull application of

sudo /etc/init.d/php-fpm restart
sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart

Tl;dr version: don’t use a Unix socket, use an IP socket. For great justice!

I leave you with this classic:

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