CentOS and php_cgi

[Qombat]

It was a tossup between the Lunix forums and the WebDev, but 80% of here knows their shit with servers so WebDev won.

In a nutshell, I've moved to a (FanaticalVPS :v:) CentOS VPS, and after configuring php_cgi and shit, I run it and get this awesome error:
[QUOTE][root@~~~~~~~ run]# /etc/init.d/php_cgi start

Starting php-cgi: spawn-fcgi: child exited with: 255

[FAILED][/QUOTE]
I cannot find anything on Google with errorcode 255 for the life of me, and there's nothing in /var/log.

So FPWD, in the words of 4chan /b/, what do?

[editline]15th October 2010[/editline]

I'm using Nginx, not Lighttpd or any other HTTPD.

[andersonmat]

nginx + php-fpm don't work well on CentOS. I'd say go Fedora if you want to use nginx and php-fpm.

[PvtCupcakes]

Which version of nginx? Is it the really old in-repository 0.6.7? Or did you install a newer version?

[X'Trapolis]

Why not install Debian or Ubuntu, seeing as you're familiar with that?

[Hexxeh]

Check that spawn-fcgi is actually there, and that permissions are correct.

Should probably be at /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi.

[Qombat]

[QUOTE=andersonmat;25416979]nginx + php-fpm don't work well on CentOS. I'd say go Fedora if you want to use nginx and php-fpm.[/QUOTE]

I'd rather have gone the way I usually do, which is just the base php5-cgi packages and work with it from there, but CentOS doesn't seem to have them, or they're named differently.

[editline]16th October 2010[/editline]

[QUOTE=Hexxeh;25424341]Check that spawn-fcgi is actually there, and that permissions are correct.

Should probably be at /usr/bin/spawn-fcgi.[/QUOTE]

[root@~~~~~~~ ~]# cd /usr/bin
[root@~~~~~~~ bin]# ls | grep spawn
spawn-fcgi

[editline]16th October 2010[/editline]

[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;25420021]Which version of nginx? Is it the really old in-repository 0.6.7? Or did you install a newer version?[/QUOTE]

I have the latest version, I added the centos.alt.ru repo.

[editline]16th October 2010[/editline]

[QUOTE=X'Trapolis;25423982]Why not install Debian or Ubuntu, seeing as you're familiar with that?[/QUOTE]

Nick doesn't have the 10.10 templates yet, and Ubuntu updates distros too frequently.