Can't open index.php by default with nginx

Question

What's wrong with my server definition? If I try to access to "www.testing.com" I get a binary to download instead of the index.php, instead if I try to access to "testing.com" I get the index.php.

I already tried to set servername to:

servername testing.com;
servername testing.com www.testing.com;
servername testing.com www.testing.com *.testing.com;

Same behavior: I can't get index.php with "www.testing.com", just with "testing.com". (off course testing.com is not mine is just for example).

    user              nginx;
    worker_processes  4;
    error_log         /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
    pid               /var/run/nginx.pid;

    events {
         worker_connections  1024;
    }


    http {
         include      /etc/nginx/mime.types;
         default_type  text/plain;

         log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                            '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                            '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

         access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

         fastcgi_intercept_errors    on;
         sendfile                    on;
         keepalive_timeout           65;
         gzip                        on;
         index                       index.php index.html index.htm;

         server {
              listen 80;
              server_name www.testing.com;
              root /home/vhosts/testing;

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

        location ~* \.(?:ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)$ {
                  expires max;
                  add_header Pragma public;
                  add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
              }

        location ~* \.php$ {
                 try_files $uri =404;
                 include fastcgi.conf;
                 fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
              }
         }
    }

Answer 1

first you need to check your php-fpm settings (maybe you using socket connection instead of port in your php-fpm configuration) and add index by default in your location "/"

location / {
    index index.php index.html index.htm;
    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}

Answer 2

You can have more than one servername line, it will set up a VHOST on all of them.

Answer 3

add fastcgi_index index.php; in location ~* \.php$

location ~* \.php$ {
                 try_files $uri =404;
                 include fastcgi.conf;
                 fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
                 fastcgi_index  index.php;
              }

Answer 4

check your fpm is runing and its on 127.0.0.1:9000

location ~ \.php$ {
     try_files $uri =404;
     include fastcgi.conf;
     fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
 }

also log error and check

 error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log  debug;

for sample conf check https://github.com/rtCamp/easyengine/blob/master/conf/nginx/singlesite/basic.conf

Answer 5

This one worked for me:

    location = / {
        index index.php index.html index.htm;
        try_files $uri /index.html;
    }

The whole location config with proxy is:

    location = / {
    index index.php index.html index.htm;
    try_files $uri /index.html;
    proxy_pass http://localhost:8081;
    proxy_http_version 1.1;
    proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
    proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
    }