Can't set PHP options to FPM (failed: PHP error log cannot be set in none mode)

[LuniTV]

Hetzner Dedicated 64Gb memory
OS type and version	AlmaLinux 9.4
Webmin version	2.111
Virtualmin version	7.10.0

Hi Everyone.

I have been tranferring accounts from an old WHM/cPanel server. I’ve sucessfully transferred over half a dozen with no issues (some with Wordpress sites, some static HTML). The last one is a Wordpress site. Site doesn’t load and when I went to check PHP Options, I see it is disabled, when I try and enable FPM I get the “failed: PHP error log cannot be set in none mode” error.

I found this article, but I can’t find anything suspicious in the httpd.conf (settings are identical for the failing domain as others that are working).

Failed to switch PHP from Disabled to FPM: "failed : PHP error log cannot be set in none mode"

@stefan1959 Overnight the system reverted back to disabled. That was a twist I wasn’t expecting. I’ll try installing 8.1 to see if the server can change to it. EDIT: It was a no go. I can’t get it to change to FPM again at all. EDIT (REDUX): The only weird thing I can see is that the PHP Configuration portion of Webmin doesn’t seem to be reading the php-fpm.conf files. For example, if I manually edit the 8.1 conf file it shows: error_log = /var/opt/remi/php81/log/php-fpm/error.log I am showi…

What else can I be checking?

[Ilia]

@LuniTV

What else can I be checking?

The simplest solution to this problem would be to disable the Apache website enabled option on the Edit Virtual Server page, and then re-enable it.

[LuniTV]

Thanks for the super quick reply Ilia - that solved it!