First of all: I'm not an expert in configuring things. This is very new for me, so, my apologies in advance.

At work we have a Centos server. The guy who worked here before installed nginx. We need to made a php site, so, obviously, I need to set up php and make it work with nginx.

Making short a very long tale, I had to replace the nginx binary with a new one (because the older was compile without fast-cgi), and I had to recompile and install php (because the new version has fpm). Then I struggle with the config files, making this nginx.conf (not all the file)

user php;
location ~ \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
            fastcgi_index  index.php;
            fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /scripts$fastcgi_script_name;
            include        fastcgi_params;
     }

and uncomment some parameters in php-fpm (to much to detail here, but the important is that group and user are "php")

I never could start the php-fpm with the instructions of the book

sudo /usr/sbin/php-fpm start

But after look at the net, I found this

sudo /usr/local/sbin/php-fpm --fpm-config=/usr/local/etc/php-fpm.conf

This worked (I think)

I restarted nginx. But... nothings happens with php... My calls to php files (via firefox) doesn't even appear in the log (/opt/nginx/logs/error.log)

I'm really, really exhausted and lost... Could anyone help me, pleaaase.... :(

Thanks in advance