diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/phpfpm/default.nix b/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/phpfpm/default.nix
index a3a23b222fbb..787eed1c0ca4 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/phpfpm/default.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/phpfpm/default.nix
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ let
 
   stateDir = "/run/phpfpm";
 
-  pidFile = "${stateDir}/phpfpm.pid";
-
   mkPool = n: p: ''
     [${n}]
     listen = ${p.listen}
@@ -17,9 +15,8 @@ let
 
   cfgFile = pkgs.writeText "phpfpm.conf" ''
     [global]
-    pid = ${pidFile}
     error_log = syslog
-    daemonize = yes
+    daemonize = no
     ${cfg.extraConfig}
 
     ${concatStringsSep "\n" (mapAttrsToList mkPool cfg.pools)}
@@ -43,7 +40,7 @@ in {
         description = ''
           Extra configuration that should be put in the global section of
           the PHP-FPM configuration file. Do not specify the options
-          <literal>pid</literal>, <literal>error_log</literal> or
+          <literal>error_log</literal> or
           <literal>daemonize</literal> here, since they are generated by
           NixOS.
         '';
@@ -129,8 +126,8 @@ in {
         mkdir -p "${stateDir}"
       '';
       serviceConfig = {
+        Type = "notify";
         ExecStart = "${cfg.phpPackage}/bin/php-fpm -y ${cfgFile} -c ${phpIni}";
-        PIDFile = pidFile;
       };
     };
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/default.nix
index 7b816b49db53..f79ef61d36a2 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 , mysql, libxml2, readline, zlib, curl, postgresql, gettext
 , openssl, pkgconfig, sqlite, config, libjpeg, libpng, freetype
 , libxslt, libmcrypt, bzip2, icu, openldap, cyrus_sasl, libmhash, freetds
-, uwimap, pam, gmp, apacheHttpd, libiconv }:
+, uwimap, pam, gmp, apacheHttpd, libiconv, systemd }:
 
 let
 
@@ -19,11 +19,12 @@ let
 
       enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-      buildInputs = [ flex bison pkgconfig ];
+      buildInputs = [ flex bison pkgconfig systemd ];
 
       configureFlags = [
         "EXTENSION_DIR=$(out)/lib/php/extensions"
-      ] ++ lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin "--with-iconv=${libiconv}";
+      ] ++ lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin "--with-iconv=${libiconv}"
+        ++ lib.optional stdenv.isLinux  "--with-fpm-systemd";
 
       flags = {