I have a Ubuntu 16.04 droplet: It’s a pure all-default LEMP environment.

I’ve added the following global conf to the http block inside nginx.conf.

The purpose is to cover app all apps (WordPress apps and PHPmyadmin) in one block of conf, instead creating multiple conf files and their symlinks.

http {
    ..........................................
    server {
        listen 80 default_server;
        root /var/www/$host;
        location / {
            index index.php index.html index.htm;
        }
        location {
            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
        }
        location ~ \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
            fastcgi_index  index.php;
            fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
            include        fastcgi_params;
        }
    }
    ..........................................
}

The problem is that this configuration breaks the system - as long as it’s inside nginx.conf, the system breaks.

The full nginx.conf can be seen here.

Why does my global code breaks Nginx?