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System: LEMP running on Ubuntu 14.04

I'm trying to configure the tool Monit to restart Nginx or PHP-FPM if ever there is a problem. It is correctly monitoring Nginx however under status for PHP-FPM it says "Not Monitoring". Apparently I'm having it check the wrong location.

Here is my Nginx configuration for PHP-FPM that is running on a socket:

location ~ .php$ ## Execute PHP scripts
 if (!-e $request_filename) rewrite / /index.php last; ## Catch 404s that try_files miss

 expires off; ## Do not cache dynamic content
 fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
 fastcgi_index index.php;
 fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
 include fastcgi_params; ## See /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params

 fastcgi_keep_conn on; #hhvm param

Here is my Monit configuration for both Nginx and PHP-FPM:

## Check Nginx
check process nginx with pidfile /var/run/nginx.pid
 start program = "/etc/init.d/nginx start"
 stop program = "/etc/init.d/nginx stop"
## Check PHP-FPM
check process php-fpm with pidfile /var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.pid
 group www-data #change accordingly
 start program = "/etc/init.d/php5-fpm start"
 stop program = "/etc/init.d/php5-fpm stop"
 if failed unixsocket /var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock then restart
 if 3 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout

I went with the suggested start and stop recommendations despite always restarting with "service php5-fpm restart".

My group - according to /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf - is "group = www-data". I checked my php-fpm.conf and noticed that the PID file is being created at /var/run/php5-fpm.pid so I changed that. Then Monit said "Initializing" followed by "Connection failed". Any suggestions?

Ok, I was able to solve it myself. There were a number of problems. "php5" needed to replace almost every instance of "php". The bad connection I was receiving was referring to the unixsocket so I had to update that as well. Also the new PID location changed it looks like with PHP5-FPM. Here is the final configuration.

## Check PHP-FPM
check process php5-fpm with pidfile /var/run/php5-fpm.pid
 group www-data #change accordingly
 start program = "/etc/init.d/php5-fpm start"
 stop program = "/etc/init.d/php5-fpm stop"
 if failed unixsocket /var/run/php5-fpm.sock then restart
 if 3 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout

This is the configuration I've been using for a long time and works great

check process php5-fpm with pidfile /var/run/php5-fpm.pid
 group phpcgi
 if not exist for 2 cycles then restart
 start program = "/usr/sbin/service php5-fpm start"
 stop program = "/usr/sbin/service php5-fpm stop"
 if not exist for 2 cycles then restart
 if failed unixsocket /var/run/php5-fpm.sock then restart
 if 5 restarts within 5 cycles then timeout