I do a lot of WordPress development and use nginx as my web server. Since WordPress uses PHP (v5.5.27 is included with El Capitan), I also use PHP-FPM as my FastCGI Process Manager. Here are some of the issues I needed to resolve to get my development environment up and running.
NGiNX:
- Disable user setting in nginx.conf. Since I run nginx manually as needed, I needed to comment the user setting.
- The default log paths in nginx.conf were pointing to paths that did not exist. I wanted the logs to be located in the same parent folder as my html folder so I set them accordingly:
- error_log /usr/local/var/log/nginx/error.log
- access_log /usr/local/var/log/nginx/access.log
- This was a new error I received when attempting to launch nginx in El Capitan: ‘1024 worker_connections exceed open file resource limit: 256’. To resolve this I added the following line in the main section of my nginx.conf file: ‘worker_rlimit_nofile 65535;’. This changes the limit of maximum number of open files for worker processes. http://stackcoded.com/379456/nginx-ulimit-workerconnections-exceed-open-file-resource-limit-1024
MySQL
- Since El Capitan resets the permissions for all files and folders under /usr, I needed to change the ownership for /usr/local/mysql and all of its files and subfolders to _mysql. `sudo chown -R _mysql:_mysql /usr/local/mysql/*`
PHP
- By default, El Capitan does not contain /etc/php.ini. Instead it contains /etc/php.ini.default. I simply copied the php.ini.default to php.ini and made the necessary changes to the file.
PHP-FPM
- By default, El Capitan does not contain /etc/php-fpm.ini. Instead it contains /etc/php.ini.default. I simply copied the php-fpm.ini.default to php-fpm.ini and made the necessary changes to the file.
- Like nginx, I prefer to run php-fpm manually as needed. In the php-fpm.ini file I needed to comment out the user and group settings.
As I continue setting up my new development environment in El Capitan I will update this article as I find more obstacles.
