I'm trying to get Nginx and PHP-FastCGI on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS configured correctly, but running into problems. Any help is appreciated. I will provide any additional information if needed.

I have two nginx configuration files at:

/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

/etc/nginx/sites-available/mysite.com

Issue 1: mysite.com/info.php "File not found."

I've created a doc named info.php in /usr/share/nginx/html. When I attempt to visit the file, I get "File not found." as my error message. I see no place in my configuration files where /usr/share/nginx/html is specified…should that be set as root somewhere? My websites files are in /srv/www/mysite.com/public_html which is set as the root in /etc/nginx/sites-available/mysite.com

Issue 2: mysite.com/importbuddy.php "Error #224834. This directory is not write enabled. Please verify write permissions to continue."

I have a doc named importbuddy.php to import a wordpress website in /srv/www/mysite.com/public_html. I believe the error message I receive when I try to visit this site is due to my php-fpm/php-fcgi server not having write permissions in this directory, but I'm not sure how to enable write permissions for the php-fpm/php-fcgi server.

Additional information:

I have gone back and forth in /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf and /etc/nginx/sites-available/gogogainesville.com changing the "listen =" and "fastcgi_pass" parameters, respectively. The parameters I've tried are:

listen = 127.0.0.1:9000;

listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock;

listen = /tmp/php5-fpm.sock;

listen = /var/run/php-fastcgi/php-fastcgi.socket;

In the last case, I created an executable file /usr/bin/php-fastcgi with the following contents (where 'my_user' is the user who owns /srv/www/*):

File:/usr/bin/php-fastcgi

!/bin/bash

FASTCGIUSER=myuser

FASTCGIGROUP=myuser

SOCKET=/var/run/php-fastcgi/php-fastcgi.socket

PIDFILE=/var/run/php-fastcgi/php-fastcgi.pid

CHILDREN=6

PHP5=/usr/bin/php5-cgi

/usr/bin/spawn-fcgi -s $SOCKET -P $PIDFILE -C $CHILDREN -u $FASTCGIUSER -g $FASTCGIGROUP -f $PHP5

I've installed the following:

spawn-fcgi

php5-cli

php5-cgi

php5-fpm

psmisc

If anyone can shed some light on my config. issues or point me in a good direction, I'd really appreciate it.