diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/php/php-fpm.service b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/php/php-fpm.service
index ac79dc931a..eec76fb563 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/php/php-fpm.service
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/php/php-fpm.service
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Description=PHP-FPM
 After=network.target
 [Service]
 Type=forking
-PIDFile=@LOCALSTATEDIR@/run/php-fpm.pid
+PIDFile=/run/php-fpm.pid
 ExecStart=@SYSCONFDIR@/init.d/php-fpm start
 ExecStop=@SYSCONFDIR@/init.d/php-fpm stop
 [Install]