Nginx – restart spawn-fcgi

Is something else listening on port 9000?

netstat -tnap | grep LIST | grep 9000

On the other hand, I'd recommend to strace the start script to check the system calls:

sudo strace -f -o strace.output /etc/init.d/php-fastcgi start

Then take a look at the file strace.output, especially the last few lines. strace is always good to "enlighten" the way.

Hope this helps.

You could run monit doing like this in the config:

check process spawn-fcgi with pidfile /var/run/spawn-fcgi.pid
        start program = "/etc/init.d/spawn-fcgi start"
        stop program = "/etc/init.d/spawn-fcgi stop"
        if failed host localhost port 80 protocol HTTP request /test.php then restart
        if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout
        depends on nginx

check process nginx with pidfile /var/run/nginx.pid
        start program = "/etc/init.d/nginx start"
        stop program = "/etc/init.d/nginx stop"
        if failed host localhost port 80 protocol HTTP request /token.html then restart
        if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout

the test.php is just a php file that does echo 'OK'

Of course I supose you already have a spawn-fcgi init script and a PID file.