The standard permissions for a clean install: root:root This is a clean install, nothing added or customized. Since php 8.x was added to this repository: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/php/openSUSE_Factory/ It has had this problem, 6 months now, PHP 7.x works fine. I use Apache & php 8.x for Tumbleweed, no php-fpm needed. I have been using NGINX and PHP-FPM together for a while. From my experience, PHP and openSuSE TW seem to have issues. Especially php-fpm, it seems the attention to php with TW is low. I know php is being phased out and python is the way to go. I'm old school, I like php! It works fine with openSuSE Leap 15.x no issue, ever. I use this repository for Leap: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/php/openSUSE_Leap_15.2/ openSuSE Tumbleweed has been my main bleeding edge Linux for a while. But after fighting php-fpm with TW for a few years now... I've switched to Fedora... :( I still use openSuSE Leap as my stable go to Linux. https://www.team3.net/ https://www.team3.org/