I'm going CRAZY: ERROR: failed to load configuration file '/private/etc/php-fpm.conf' homebrew
The php-fpm binary expects php-fpm.conf file to read the configuration when it starts up. On Mac OSX by default this file is named as "/private/etc/php-fpm.conf.default" Change/copy it to "php-fpm.conf" from "php-fpm.conf.default"
cp /private/etc/php-fpm.conf.default /private/etc/php-fpm.conf
And then restart the service