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

I my case I was not using /etc/nginx/sites-available/default I was using a different server block configuration file (e.g. example.com), and the only way I was able to fix this problem is by removing the default server block configuration file symbolic link:

$ rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

then reloading Nginx:

$ sudo systemctl reload nginx

Answer 2

If anything else doesn't help you. And maybe earlier you installed apache2 with info.php test file. Just clear App Data (cache,cookie) for localhost.

Answer 3

For anyone having same issue with PHP 7, this is what I done to make nginx execute php files properly in CentOS 7, posted here so in case of anyone having same problem:

• Follow step by step this document on Digital Ocean.

• Open the /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf (by default I don't have sites-enabled nor sites-available, you can edit accordingly).

• Edit the location parameter as below:

default.conf:

location ~ \.php$ {
    try_files $uri =404;
    #fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;

    #instruct nginx execute php7 files instead download them :D
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/www.sock;

    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    include fastcgi_params;
}

• Restart Nginx and PHP services sudo systemctl restart php-fpm and sudo systemctl restart nginx.

• Last but most important, clear browser cache or running in incognito (Chrome) or Private Browsing (Firefox) etc...

Hope this helpful and happy coding

Answer 4

Try this:

1. Edit /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

2. Uncomment both listen lines to make nginx listen on port 80 IPv4 and IPv6.

   listen   80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
   listen   [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6
   

3. Leave server_name alone

   # Make site accessible (...)
   server_name localhost;
   

4. Add index.php to the index line

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

5. Uncomment location ~ \.php$ {}

   # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on (...)
   #
   location ~ \.php$ {
           try_files $uri =404;
           fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
           # 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;
   }
   

6. Edit /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini and make sure cgi.fix_pathinfo is set to 0

7. Restart nginx and php5-fpm (if you don't know how to do it, restart the server)

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I have just started using Linux a week ago, so I really hope to help you on this. I am using nano text editor to edit the files. run apt-get install nano if you don't have it. Google on it to know more.

Answer 5

I had similar problem which was resolved by emptying the browser cache (also worked fine with different browser).

Answer 6

For me it helped to add ?$query_string at the end of /index.php, like below:

location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}