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The title says it all... follows are my config files.

There have to be many others looking for an updated solution to the FastCGI configuration woes.

Merci!

I enabled log_level debug for php-fpm and follows is the output.

[29-Mar-2017 09:29:45.978844] DEBUG: pid 18992, fpm_pctl_perform_idle_server_maintenance(), line 379: [pool www] currently 0 active children, 2 spare children, 2 running children. Spawning rate 1
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:46.979937] DEBUG: pid 18992, fpm_pctl_perform_idle_server_maintenance(), line 379: [pool www] currently 0 active children, 2 spare children, 2 running children. Spawning rate 1
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:47.981031] DEBUG: pid 18992, fpm_pctl_perform_idle_server_maintenance(), line 379: [pool www] currently 0 active children, 2 spare children, 2 running children. Spawning rate 1
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.443352] DEBUG: pid 18992, fpm_got_signal(), line 85: received SIGTERM
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.443381] NOTICE: pid 18992, fpm_got_signal(), line 86: Terminating ...
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.443404] DEBUG: pid 18992, fpm_pctl(), line 231: switching to 'terminating' state
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.443414] DEBUG: pid 18992, fpm_pctl_kill_all(), line 159: [pool www] sending signal 15 SIGTERM to child 18994
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.443421] DEBUG: pid 18992, fpm_pctl_kill_all(), line 159: [pool www] sending signal 15 SIGTERM to child 18993
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.443425] DEBUG: pid 18992, fpm_pctl_kill_all(), line 168: 2 child(ren) still alive
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.443433] DEBUG: pid 18992, fpm_event_loop(), line 419: event module triggered 1 events
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.443440] DEBUG: pid 18992, fpm_pctl_kill_all(), line 159: [pool www] sending signal 9 SIGKILL to child 18994
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.443445] DEBUG: pid 18992, fpm_pctl_kill_all(), line 159: [pool www] sending signal 9 SIGKILL to child 18993
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.443450] DEBUG: pid 18992, fpm_pctl_kill_all(), line 168: 2 child(ren) still alive
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.444010] DEBUG: pid 18992, fpm_got_signal(), line 76: received SIGCHLD
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.444034] DEBUG: pid 18992, fpm_children_bury(), line 252: [pool www] child 18993 exited on signal 15 (SIGTERM) after 198.667599 seconds from start
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.444051] DEBUG: pid 18992, fpm_children_bury(), line 252: [pool www] child 18994 exited on signal 15 (SIGTERM) after 198.667194 seconds from start
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.444058] NOTICE: pid 18992, fpm_pctl_exit(), line 70: exiting, bye-bye!
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.501376] DEBUG: pid 19048, fpm_scoreboard_init_main(), line 40: got clock tick '100'
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.501543] DEBUG: pid 19048, fpm_event_init_main(), line 337: event module is epoll and 1 fds have been reserved
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.501597] NOTICE: pid 19048, fpm_init(), line 85: fpm is running, pid 19048
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.502089] DEBUG: pid 19048, fpm_children_make(), line 421: [pool www] child 19049 started
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.502530] DEBUG: pid 19048, fpm_children_make(), line 421: [pool www] child 19050 started
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.502556] DEBUG: pid 19048, fpm_event_loop(), line 366: 6000 bytes have been reserved in SHM
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.502562] NOTICE: pid 19048, fpm_event_loop(), line 367: ready to handle connections
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.502614] DEBUG: pid 19048, fpm_systemd_heartbeat(), line 68: have notify start to systemd
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:48.502631] NOTICE: pid 19048, fpm_systemd_heartbeat(), line 75: systemd monitor interval set to 10000ms
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:49.503709] DEBUG: pid 19048, fpm_pctl_perform_idle_server_maintenance(), line 379: [pool www] currently 0 active children, 2 spare children, 2 running children. Spawning rate 1
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:50.504808] DEBUG: pid 19048, fpm_pctl_perform_idle_server_maintenance(), line 379: [pool www] currently 0 active children, 2 spare children, 2 running children. Spawning rate 1
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:51.505900] DEBUG: pid 19048, fpm_pctl_perform_idle_server_maintenance(), line 379: [pool www] currently 0 active children, 2 spare children, 2 running children. Spawning rate 1
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:52.506994] DEBUG: pid 19048, fpm_pctl_perform_idle_server_maintenance(), line 379: [pool www] currently 0 active children, 2 spare children, 2 running children. Spawning rate 1
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:53.508089] DEBUG: pid 19048, fpm_pctl_perform_idle_server_maintenance(), line 379: [pool www] currently 0 active children, 2 spare children, 2 running children. Spawning rate 1
[29-Mar-2017 09:29:54.509183] DEBUG: pid 19048, fpm_pctl_perform_idle_server_maintenance(), line 379: [pool www] currently 0 active children, 2 spare children, 2 running children. Spawning rate 1

curl -i http://ipaddress

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.10.2
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:18:20 GMT
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Length: 1780
Last-Modified: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:20:08 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
ETag: "5852b4a8-6f4"
Accept-Ranges: bytes

nginx/php-fpm generated no errors in logs

nginx access log generated the following.

192.88.135.5 - - [28/Mar/2017:13:18:38 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 1780 "-""Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36 OPR/43.0.2442.1144"

The files that show in the .sock path are:

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 5 Mar 28 18:45 php-fpm.pid
srw-rw-rw-. 1 nginx nginx 0 Mar 28 18:45 website.com.sock

nginx version: nginx/1.10.2
PHP 7.0.16 (fpm-fcgi) (built: Feb 18 2017 10:26:54)

nginx.conf

user nginx nginx;
worker_processes 4;

error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log notice;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log info;

events 
 worker_connections 1024;


http 
 include mime.types;
 default_type application/octet-stream;

 sendfile on;
 #tcp_nopush on;

 #keepalive_timeout 0;
 keepalive_timeout 65;

 upstream php 
 server unix:/var/run/php-fpm/website.com.sock;
 

 server 
 include /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf;
 include /etc/nginx/sites-available/*.conf;
 

default.conf

include /etc/nginx/security;
#expires max;

#Uploads configuration
client_max_body_size 32m;

site-available/site.conf

listen [::]:80;
server_name *.website.com;
root /some/directory/website/;

access_log /var/log/nginx/www.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/www.error.log notice;

#fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;

#Index targets
index index.php index.html index.htm;

location / auth)(.*) https://$host$request_uri?;

 # try_files $uri =404;
 # #fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+.php)(/.+)$;
 try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;



# if the file being requested ends in ".php", it's something
# that PHP-FPM should process, so hand it to upstream server

location ~ .php$ 
 fastcgi_pass php;

php-fpm/www.conf

; Start a new pool named 'www'.
[www]

ping./var/run/php-fpm/website.com.sock = /ping
listen = /var/run/php-fpm/website.com.sock;
pm = dynamic
pm.status_/var/run/php-fpm/website.com.sock = /status

user = nginx
group = nginx

listen.owner = nginx
listen.group = nginx
listen.mode = 0666

pm.max_children = 5
pm.start_servers = 2
pm.min_spare_servers = 1
pm.max_spare_servers = 3

fastcgi.conf

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;

# To use NGINX + Virtual Host + PHP you should ommit the SCRIPT_NAME variable in order for 
# PHP to choose the correct DOCUMENT_ROOT.
#fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
#

fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_SCHEME $scheme;
fastcgi_param HTTPS $https if_not_empty;

fastcgi_param GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx/$nginx_version;

fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT $remote_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name;

# PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
fastcgi_param REDIRECT_STATUS 200;

Your PHP socket has permissions of root:root and 644. Nginx is running as nginx. It's likely that PHP can't access the socket to run PHP, as Nginx won't be a member of the root group.

I would change permissions of the socket. This is one way, but you might decide to do it differently based on the multitude of tutorials that no doubt exist online and can be found via Google.

chown nginx:nginx /var/run/php-fpm/website.sock

NB: old answer was regarding socket path, but this didn't turn out to be the answer as the question was inaccurate.

The problem turned out to be PHP 5.4.16 was installed on server as opposed to PHP7.1 on local instance. The application requires PHP 5.5+ to successfully run requests through kernel. This is why I was not generating any errors for NGINX with my configuration. I discovered the solution by installing and configuring Apache as the server instead of NGINX only to receive the white screen on client. Thanks for all comments and eyeballs contributed!