# Deploying php-fpm+nginx fails

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/deploying-php-fpm-nginx-fails/8259>\
**Category:** Rancher 1.x\
**Created:** [January 21, 2018, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/deploying-php-fpm-nginx-fails/8259 "2018-01-21T09:52:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![David\_Paz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/david_paz/32/3221_2.png) [@David\_Paz](https://forums.suse.com/u/David_Paz)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/deploying-php-fpm-nginx-fails/8259/1 "2018-01-21T09:52:51Z")

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Hi all,

I have been trying to setup my development (LEMP) environment to deploy to a rancher server.

I am using docker-composer alongside with rancher-compose tools, using S3 bucket as decribed in “Building with AWS S3”, sorry if dont post link, I am limited as new user. I can start my stack with all containers.

From inside nginx I can ping php-fpm container. I get:

```
PING [php-container-name].[nginx-container-name].[stack-name].rancher.internal 

```

So php-fpm is visible to nginx, but in my nginx logs I get:

```
[error] 11#0: *1 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: [IP], server: [host-name], request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://0.0.0.0:9000", host: "[host-name]"

```

My docker-compose.yml file:

```
version: "2"

services:

nginx-stage:
  build: "./docker/stage/nginx/"
  container_name: "nginx-stage"
  labels:
    io.rancher.sidekicks: php-stage
  volumes:
    - /home/capistrano/project-dir/current:/var/www/html
  depends_on:
    - mysql-stage # ignored definition to reduce post size
  links:
    - php-stage
  restart: unless-stopped
  expose:
    - "80"
php-stage:
  build: "./docker/stage/php/"
  container_name: "php-stage"
  volumes_from:
    - nginx-stage
  expose:
    - "9000"

```

In rancher-compose.yml I only have variable definitions. I was expecting this setup to work more or less seamless but faced problems with volumes, that’s why decided to use the `sidekicks` approach after [reading this comment](https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/1353#issuecomment-116289108). Also because of [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35261922/debugging-the-famous-fastcgi-sent-in-stderr-primary-script-unknown-while-re#answer-40535412).

In general I have (except for the labels) the same setup on local development environment and it works fine. Tried to use the same for rancher with the differences mentioned. I can confirm nginx is passing correct script name to php-fpm and source code is properly mounted in expected directories (`/var/www/html`) in both containers. Permissions are set, user (www-data) GID are the same in host and in container.

- If I mount code location in server as volume in both container, I get the infamous “Primary script unknown”. I receive logs entries in php and nginx that is trying to process it correctly, but php can not find scripts.

- If I decide to use `sidekicks` / `volumes_from` approach I get the `Connection refused` mentioned earlier. And php container doesn’t seems to receive anything, since logs are empty.

One thing I tried to debug fpm was using `cgi-fcgi -bind -connect`, ran from nginx container and from php container as well, in all cases I receive:

```
Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

```

as answer from fast-cgi. But when trying to access from outside I get the `Connection refused`, which is currently the setup used for mounting the source code. I would like to avoid building source code images or alike solutions, the same applies to build one franken-container with all dependencies inside.

If somebody can shed some light on why can not get this to work I will be highly appreciated. I don’t know what / where else to try / look for. If some more data is needed just ask.

Thanks in advance for the time and such a great tool that rancher is.  
Cheers,  
David