NGINX: connect() to unix:/var/run/php7.2-fpm.sock failed (2: No such file or directory)

Question

I\'ve just recently moved my websites from apache2 to Nginx as my new web server backend. got to love problems aha.

HTML files in the web host director work prior to php

Answer 1

Make sure you have everything properly setup.

sudo apt-get install php7.2-fpm
sudo service nginx restart
sudo service php7.2-fpm restart

This will generate file /run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock