PHP-fpm 7.4 not visible anymore

Virtualmin
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SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version Debian 11
Webmin version 2.021
Virtualmin version 7.7
Related packages PHP

On a server PHP7.4 would not restart after doing a “routine” upgrade which upgraded (as far as I remember) PHP 8.1 packages.

Server has been working for at least for a year and a half, and multiple PHP versions have been installed as per the Virtualmin doc, everything was working fine until this upgrade.
After the upgrade a few sites went down (mostly Wordpress that were not using PHP-fpm 7.4 but PHP-fpm 8.1).
On the dashboard only PHP-fpm 7.4 was down and I was unable to restart it, error being:

Another FPM instance seems to already listen on /var/php-fpm ...

on 2 differents xxxxxxxxxxxxx.sock files …

I tried a lot of things, I had some weird results, for example stopping all PHP-fpm, if I try to start PHP-fpm 7.4 it’s PHP-fpm 8.1 that starts, weird but making sense because I discovered that those sock files were existing in both /var/php/7.4/fpm/pool.d and /var/php/8.1/fpm/pool.d…
I also tried to reinstall php 7.4 with --reinstall (maybe it was a bad idea…) but I finally was able to restart PHP-fpm 7.4 after deleting those duplicated sock files …
Of course I went each time through the re-check configuration.

The following PHP execution modes are available : cgi fcgid fpm
The following PHP versions are available : 7.4.33 (/bin/php-cgi7.4), 8.0.28 (/bin/php-cgi8.0), 8.1.18 (/bin/php-cgi8.1), 8.2.6 (/bin/php-cgi8.2)
The following PHP-FPM versions are available : 8.0.28 (php8.0-fpm) 8.1.18 (php8.1-fpm) 8.2.6 (php8.2-fpm)

Now I have all PHP-fpm up and running but I have another problem: I am unable to view the PHP-fpm 7.4 status on dashboard and I cannot choose it on individual virtualhosts … is there a way to have it re-appear in Virtualmin ?

PS: I had my websites in need of 7.4 back by choosing FCGID instead of FPM.

Thanks !
Pierre

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I’m running same OS and versions. I have 2 different 7’s because something required it. Overall, I really don’t have much on the server right now so can’t help too much other than to say mine seems to work OK even after some PHP updates.

But, have you tried to restart Webmin to see if the dashboard picks it up?

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Yep, even tried to restart the server.
Thanks. Pierre.

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Did you try remove 7.4 and then a new install?

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Hello
As I said I tried a force-reinstall, not sure if this is the same:

apt-get --reinstall install php7.4-fpm{......}

I said I thought it might be a bad idea (PHP7.4 being the default for Debian 11, I’m afraid the reinstall took the sury/php depot instead of the debian … wondering …).

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That why I said remove and probably with the purge switch.

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I can’t think any reason removing it and reinstalling it could do anything useful.

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And do you have any other suggestion about where I might have to look to regain php7.4-fpm ? Or any other info I should give you to understand ?

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How about stopping all PHP services and deleting all socket files and than restart all PHP versions? They should be recreated than and maybe solve the issue?

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You mean like erasing all .sock files in /var/php-fpm (after stopping all these processes) ?

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Yes, I would start in /var/php/7.4/fpm/pool.d
And also for the 8.* if this would not work.
You can backup or rename them first if you want.

That is what I would try.

And after the restart of PHP services, hit the re-check configuration again.

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Sorry but I think you are making a mistake. If you tell me to erase “sock” files, it’s in “/var/php-fpm”, there is no “/var/php”.
You mention “/var/php/7.4/fpm/pool.d” , it does not exist, it’s more probably “/etc/php/7.4/fpm/pool.d” but it does not contain “sock” files, they are all “conf” files …
So you mean I should erase “sock” files or “conf” files, which is quite different … “conf” files will be re-generated ?
Thanks for taking the time to look into my problem !

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Hi,

I see, I took the path from you post, but you have to check were they are.

I tried a lot of things, I had some weird results, for example stopping all PHP-fpm, if I try to start PHP-fpm 7.4 it’s PHP-fpm 8.1 that starts, weird but making sense because I discovered that those sock files were existing in both /var/php/7.4/fpm/pool.d and /var/php/8.1/fpm/pool.d…

It something I would try. The problem is quite tough what you’re having. I tried to find something to help you, but could only find someone who delete the sock files and then rebooted PHP. Maybe it will do not much for you, but worth to try.

If nothing else would work, I would backup all virtual servers, do a clean install and then restore them all. I’m not sure how long you can afford the websites to be down?

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I’ll look into that, migrating virtualhosts to another server is already an option I am considering, VPS’s are now cheap enough so this can be done quite easily if needed.
Thanks for your time !

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Any progress? If you managed to solve it, let us know, than we know what to do when we run into something odd like this :+1:

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Hello,
Sorry I was real busy for a while. I made some progress … well the server made some progress because PHP7.4 did show up 2 days later without me doing anything, but … something is still weird on that server because for the last 2 days I have PHP8.0.28 showing as down on the dashboard but in fact running properly (all virtualhosts using this PHP version up and running).
If you recall my previous message I had some weird comportment (like starting 7.4 would in fact start 8.0) so I’m just planning onto completely reinstalling that machine, there is an underlying problem that I cannot isolate, so just wipe out the server and restart fresh :slight_smile:
Thanks for your interest in my problem !
Pierre