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I'm trying to setup nginx and cgit on FreeBSD but nginx can't access /var/run/fcgiwrap/fcgiwrap.sock.

In my /etc/rc.conf I already set fcgiwrap_user="www", and www is also the user nginx runs as.

When I make fcgiwrap.sock owned by www by performing chown www /var/run/fcgiwrap/fcgiwrap.sock, everything works the way I want.

However this is of course not the proper way to do this, and it will only last until reboot.

I was under the assumption that setting fcgiwrap_user="www" would also determine this.

Am I missing something?

Update:

I noticed that when I use service fcgiwrap start or restart, the message Starting fcgiwrap is followed by chmod: /var/run/fcgiwrap/fcgiwrap.sock: No such file or directory. However /var/run/fcgiwrap/fcgiwrap.sock does exist afterwards.

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The RC script is located at /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fcgiwrap.

Looking at the code, fcgiwrap_user sets the owner of the process running the daemon (default root).

You need to set fcgiwrap_socket_owner="www" to set the owner of the socket.

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  • Ah I see! That did the trick, thank you. How come most sources on this topic only mention fcgiwrap_user? Could it be that this has been changed since then? Commented Apr 13, 2017 at 16:52
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    There is a lot of bad advice out there :-) Commented Apr 13, 2017 at 16:55
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The answer of Richard Smith also worked for me but in my case I also had to set fcgiwrap_socket_group="www". These settings seem to be new because earlier it was sufficient to set fcgiwrap_user="www".

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  • That is nice to know too! Thanks for pointing it out. Commented Apr 21, 2017 at 23:07

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