This article applies to enabling FastCGI support for PHP scripts on MediaTemple hosting.
Following sequence of commands/actions as mentioned below. Order is important!
1. Check how your PHP scripts are served?
Create a file with name “info.php” on your domains webroot directory – example path:** “/var/www/vhosts/example.com/”**
Add following codes in it.** **
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
After saving file like above access URL from browser: http://example.com/info.php
In output, look for option Server API **and its value. It must be **”CGI/FastCGI”.
2. Login via Plesk panel and enable CGI as well as FASTCGI support for the domain in question, say for example.com
For domain in question, make sure following options are configures:
- PHP – Enabled
- PHP ‘safe_mode’ – Disabled
- CGI – Enabled
- FastCGI – Disabled
3. Login as root over SSH and execute following commands
1. Move to webroot directory for exmaple.com
cd /var/www/vhosts/example.com
2. Copy php-cgi file to bin sub-directory under **example.com **
cp /usr/bin/php-cgi bin/
3. Change owner for bin directory and its content (that includes php-cgi file)
chown -R username:psacln bin
(replace username with your FTP login name for this domain)
4. Create a vhost.conf file in conf sub-directory under **example.com **
vi conf/vhost.conf
5. Paste following content in that file. DO NOT forget to replace example.com with your actual domain name.* *
AddHandler fcgid-script .php .php5
<Directory /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs>
FCGIWrapper /var/www/vhosts/example.com/bin/php-cgi .php
allow from all
</Directory>
6. Run following command so that Plesk will update its configuration including apache server restart
/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -a -v
7. Jump to the first step and verify PHP Server API.
8.DO NOT forget to change owner of files that were created using PHP running as Apache module
cd httpdocs</strong> #DO NOT FORGET THIS COMMAND ELSE YOU WILL CRY FOR SURE
chown -R username:psacln *
(replace username with your FTP login name for this domain)