cocoy/chef-php5-fpm — Issue #1: HALT! Before you go any further
Author: patcon
Created: 2012-02-28 16:30:58+00:00
State: open

Thought this might help before you recreate it all :)
https://github.com/slywalker/chef_php_on_nginx_quick_start/tree/master/cookbooks/php-fastcgi

You should ask @slywalker about pulling his cookbook out into it's own repo where people will find it simpler and be able to contribute back. This is a GREAT strategy to preserve the history:
http://psionides.eu/2010/02/04/sharing-code-between-projects-with-git-subtree/

A good rule of thumb is to search various combintations of "chef php fpm" "cookbook php fastcgi" etc etc, perhaps with the ruby language filter, before kicking into action on a new cookbooks :)