Running php 5.2 fpm on ARM processor

Sometimes you need to run legacy php code on ARM processors. Since php 5.2 was released 2 November 2006 at the time there were not a lot of powerful ARM solutions capable of running full-fledged websites. However, right now there is a possibility to run pretty heavy code on modern ARM platforms and a lot of linux distros support ARM architecture. There is even dedicated ARM cloud hosting. In this post we’re going to fix the inability to run PHP in the FPM(Fast Process Manager) mode which is an absolute requirement if you want to run production websites.