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I encountered an error while setting up an nginx web server using php-fpm for processing PHP.

• The error happened while starting php-fpm:
  

  service php-fpm start
  

  • Example output
    

    Starting php_fpm.
    Segmentation fault
    /usr/local/etc/rc.d/php-fpm: WARNING: failed to start php_fpm
    

The Fix¶

As it turns out, this is a problem with certain PHP modules being loaded later than another; specifically the recode.so module was being loaded after the imap.so module.

• To fix this, edit the php extension configuration file:
  

  vi /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini
  

  • And move extension=recode.so above extension=imap.so
    

    ...
    extension=recode.so
    extension=imap.so
    ...
    

• Now php-fpm will start:
  

  service php-fpm start
  

Resources¶

• https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/php-segmentation-fault-11-after-update.39910/#post-264571