Ran into this issue when setting up a new VPS for AutoRidge. This happens when using Nginx and PHP-FPM with PHP 5.3+ and the Suhosin patch when trying to run a PHP script using a PHAR package. From what I can gather, the Suhosin patch basically blocks PHP include/require functions from executing files ending with .phar, which results in a PHP segfault that leaves no trace of any error at all. This is what makes this error so frustratingly difficult to track down – there is no trace left in any logs about what is happening or that any PHP error even occurred at all.

The solution is to open your "suhosin.ini" file to ensure the Suhosin patch is allowing PHP to open and execute PHAR files.

Mine was at:

/etc/php5/conf.d/suhosin.ini

If your suhosin config file is not there and you don’t know where it is, run this:

locate suhosin.ini

Find the config key suhosin.executor.include.whitelist and add "phar" to it.

suhosin.executor.include.whitelist ="phar"

Then restart PHP-FPM and Nginx and you should be good to go!

/etc/init.d/php5-fpm restart /etc/init.d/nginx restart