In a fresh Ghost droplet installation of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, I put a php script into a /var/www/static folder, but the file always wants to download instead of run. Is this because of Ghost? How can I get PHP to execute the script instead of trying to download it?
Edit: I can execute the file from the terminal, but running it in a browser always tries to download or just show the plaintext.
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Your HTTP traffic is been served by nodejs hence it does not know how to process a PHP File.
You could create a node endpoint to execute your PHP file via terminal or if you using NGINX as the HTTP layer you could write a configuration to point traffic from a location to php fpm instead of node.
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