I am running a LAMP server (Almalinux) supporting different versions of php. I have used the remi repos to get the multiple php files setup.
looking at the main /etc/php-fpm.conf file, it writes errors to the standard /var/log location:
error_log = /var/log/php-fpm/error.log
- Which is fine.
The remi setup created /etc/opt/remi/php81/php-fpm.conf which specifies the location of the error log file. I added my own path to where I want the file written:
;error_log = /var/opt/remi/php81/log/php-fpm/error.log
error_log /var/log/php81-fpm/error.log
- now the service refuses to start, if I change it back it is fine. I have created that folder and even an empty error.log file (with the same permissions) but still it refuses to start.
php81-php-fpm.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=78/n/a
Unit php81-php-fpm.service entered failed state.
The error log message, seems irrelevant to the issue:
ERROR: [/etc/opt/remi/php81/php-fpm.conf:455] value is NULL for a ZEND_INI_PARSER_ENTRY
For now, I have reverted, but I would like to understand what is going wrong. BTW I tried disabling selinux, but that had no effect either.