Nginx serves .php files as downloads, instead of e

Question

I am installing a website in a droplet (Digital Ocean). I have a issue for install NGINX with PHP properly. I did a tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-lemp-stack-on-ubuntu-14-04 but when I try to run some .php file it's just downloading it... for example... http://5.101.99.123/info.php it's working but... If I go to the main http://5.101.99.123 it's downloading my index.php :/

Any idea?

-rw-r--r--  1 agitar_user www-data   418 Jul 31 18:27 index.php
-rw-r--r--  1 agitar_user www-data    21 Aug 31 11:20 info.php

My /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

server {
        listen 80 default_server;
        listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

        root /var/www/html;
        index index.html index.htm index.php;

        # Make site accessible from http://localhost/
        server_name agitarycompartir.com;

               location ~ \.php$ {
                    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
    #               # NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
    #
    #               # With php5-cgi alone:
    #               fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
    #               # With php5-fpm:
                    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                    fastcgi_index index.php;
                    include fastcgi_params;
            }


              location / {

                    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
                    # Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
                    # include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
            }

... Others "location" are commented (#)

Answer 1

Update nginx config /etc/nginx/sites-available/default or your config file

if you are using php7 use this

    location ~ \.php$ {
            include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
            fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;      
    }

if you are using php5 use this

    location ~ \.php$ {
            include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
            fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php5-fpm.sock;
            fastcgi_index index.php;
            include fastcgi_params;
    }

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Answer 2

My solution was to add

    location ~ \.php$ {
    try_files $uri =404;
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    include fastcgi_params;

to my custom configuration file, for example etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com.conf

Adding to /etc/nginx/sites-available/default didn't work for me.

Answer 3

First you have to Remove cache in your browser

Then open terminal and run the following command:

sudo apt-get install php-gettext
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

Then add the following code in the default file:

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    server_name localhost;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }

    error_page 404 /404.html;
    error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
        root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

If any mismatch just correction and restart Nginx from terminal by the following command

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Then go to browser and Enjoy ...

Answer 4

If any of the proposed answers is not working, try this:

1.fix www.conf in etc/php5/fpm/pool.d:

listen = 127.0.0.1:9000;(delete all line contain listen= )

2.fix nginx.conf in usr/local/nginx/conf:

remove server block server{} (if exist) in block html{} because we use server{} in default (config file in etc/nginx/site-available) which was included in nginx.conf.

3. fix default file in etc/nginx/site-available

location ~ \.php$ { fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_index index.php; include fastcgi_params; }

4.restart nginx service

sudo service nginx restart

5.restart php service

service php5-fpm restart

6.enjoy

Create any php file in /usr/share/nginx/html and run in "server_name/file_name.php" (server_name depend on your config,normaly is localhost, file_name.php is name of file which created in /usr/share/nginx/html ).

I am using Ubuntu 14.04

Answer 5

What worked for me with Ubuntu 16.04, and php7 was deleting this line

fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;

It stopped downloading php files after that.

Answer 6

check your nginx config file extension is *.conf.
for example: /etc/nginx/conf.d/myfoo.conf

I got the same situation. After I rename the my config file from myfoo to myfoo.conf, it fixed. Do not forget to restart nginx after rename it.