Before starting installation PHP-FPM and configurations you should have Nginx installed and configured. If you don’t have it ready please follow my previous post about installing and configuring Nginx on Mac OS X. Here is the link https://www.hrupin.com/2017/11/how-to-install-nginx-webserver-on-mac-os-x

So, here we have installed and configured NGinx. Let’s install and configure PHP-FPM. Here is step by step instructions

• Install php71 using Homebrew

  brew tap homebrew/dupes
  brew tap homebrew/php
  brew search php
  brew install php71 --without-apache --with-fpm

• Setup automatic launch php after mac start

  mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents
  cp /usr/local/opt/php71/homebrew.mxcl.php71.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
  launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.php71.plist

• Edit /usr/local/etc/php/7.1/php.ini and replace

  ;cgi.fix_pathinfo=1

  with next string

  cgi.fix_pathinfo=0

• Edit /usr/local/etc/php/7.1/php-fpm.d/www.conf file and put there your username and group. You need find next lines and edit them like next. Please replace YOUR_USERNAME with your username and YOUR_GROUP with name of your group

  user = YOUR_USERNAME
  group = YOUR_GROUP

• Next we need edit default virtualhost and add make it look like this

  server {
      listen   80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
      listen   [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6
  
      server_name  localhost;
      
      root       /var/www/localhost;
  
      index index.php index.html index.htm;
   
      access_log  /usr/local/etc/nginx/logs/default.access.log;
      error_log  /usr/local/etc/nginx/logs/default.error.log;
   
      location ~ \.php$ {
          try_files      $uri = 404;
          fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
          fastcgi_index  index.php;
          fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
          include        fastcgi_params;
      }
  
      error_page  404     /404.html;
      error_page  403     /403.html;
  }

• Install mcrypt

  sudo brew install php71-mcrypt

• Prepare test web content. Create file  /var/www/localhost/info.php with next content

  <?php
      phpinfo();
  ?>

• Save all files and restart PHP

  sudo brew services stop php71
  sudo brew services start php71

• Restart Nginx

  sudo nginx -s stop
  sudo nginx

• Check how Nginx works

  curl -IL http://localhost/info.php

• Output should be like this

  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Server: nginx/1.12.1
  Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 22:01:37 GMT
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
  Connection: keep-alive
  X-Powered-By: PHP/7.1.11

• Also you can run http://localhost/info.php in your browser and you should see phpinfo table like this

Now Nginx able to work with PHP