PHP Fast CGI on mac osx - phpfcgi.plist not runing by load, not runing by reboot neither

Question

I have loaded phpcgi.plist but php-fastcgi is not runing.

The plist file is:

Michaels-MacBook-Pro:~ michael$ ll com*
-rwxr--r--  1 michael  admin  664  4  7 13:40 com.phpfcgi.plist*

The plist XML:

Michaels-MacBook-Pro:~ michael$ cat com.phpfcgi.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>Debug</key>
  <false/>
  <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
  <dict>
    <key>PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN</key>
    <string>2</string>
    <key>PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS</key>
    <string>1000</string>
  </dict>
  <key>Label</key>
  <string>com.phpfcgi</string>
  <key>OnDemand</key>
  <false/>
  <key>ProgramArguments</key>
  <array>
    <string>/usr/local/bin/php-cgi</string>
    <string>-b 127.0.0.1:9000</string>
    <string>-q</string>
  </array>
  <key>RunAtLoad</key>
  <false/>
</dict>
</plist>

Linked it:

Michaels-MacBook-Pro:~ michael$ ll Library/LaunchAgents/com.phpfcgi.plist
lrwxr-xr-x  1 michael  admin  47  4  7 13:27 Library/LaunchAgents/com.phpfcgi.plist@ -> /Volumes/MainHD/Users/michael/com.phpfcgi.plist

and I load it:

Michaels-MacBook-Pro:~ michael$ launchctl load -w Library/LaunchAgents/com.phpfcgi.plist
com.phpfcgi: Already loaded

and I check it:

Michaels-MacBook-Pro:~ michael$ ps -A | grep php
 1110 ttys000    0:00.00 grep php

NOT WORKING.

But I can start php fastcgi by run.

Michaels-MacBook-Pro:~ michael$ cat start_php-fastcgi
/usr/local/bin/php-cgi -q -b 127.0.0.1:9000 &

Answer 1

should no space between "-b" and the host (my system is osx 10.8)

I found a comment:

Thank you for this plist file! A lot of the tutorials show a space between "-b" and the host name and port. My process kept dying with a status of 255, until I removed that space. – Matt Aug 26 '12 at 16:24

from OS X: Auto start PHP FCGI via launchd on system start

It solved my problem.

The new plist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
  <dict>
    <key>PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN</key>
    <string>2</string>
    <key>PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS</key>
    <string>1000</string>
  </dict>
  <key>Label</key>
  <string>com.phpfcgi</string>
  <key>ProgramArguments</key>
  <array>
    <string>/usr/local/opt/php54/bin/php-cgi</string>
    <string>-b127.0.0.1:9000</string>
    <string>-q</string>
  </array>
  <key>RunAtLoad</key>
  <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Answer 2

There is a difference between loading and starting a job. Your job definition does not contain a run condition. You specified RunAtLoad false, telling launchd(8) to not run the job when it is loaded. If you did this on purpose you can run the job with launchctl start com.phpfcgi.