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Nginx and PHP getting error 404 with scripts

Posted June 22, 2014 42.4k views
I have Nginx running and I'm trying to execute php scripts with it, I'm using the following tutorial as a guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-lemp-stack-on-ubuntu-14-04 I've done the same steps as the article but I have a problem; I get a 404 when I try to access my php file. Here's what I've tried: -Verified the directory permissions and ownerships: permissions set to 755 and owner is www-data with group www-data -Changed file name to index.php I currently have 2 config files for each of my sites( mydomain.com and blog.mydomain.com) and I'm trying to run php scripts on mydomain.com. Here's my config file for the site: 
server {
        listen 80;

        server_name mydomain.com;

        location / {
                root /usr/share/nginx/html/mydomain.com;
                index index.html index.htm index.php;
        }

location ~ \.php$ {

        try_files $uri =404;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
}
Is there another config file I should be checking? Or perhaps there is a different config since I'm running subdomains? Thanks for your time.
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ronerazo June 23, 2014

I managed to get it working, the thing I was missing was including <code>location ~ .php$</code> inside the <code>location /</code> section. It ended up looking like this:
<pre>
location / {
root /usr/share/nginx/html/mydomain.com;
index index.html index.htm index.php;

            location ~ \.php$ {

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

</pre>
Not sure if it’s standard to do it like this but it worked for me.

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asb June 23, 2014

Are you seeing anything interesting in your Nginx error logs when you try to access the site? Run:
<pre>
tail /var/log/nginx/error.log
</pre>

I’d also move <code>index.php</code> to the front in your location block:
<pre>
location / {
root /usr/share/nginx/html/mydomain.com;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
}
</pre>

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demoskp June 8, 2017

I am getting the same error when trying to load the info.php file and have been trying to solve it for hours but can’t seem to find a solution.

I installed LEMP with 16.04 but it seems hard to find why my php is not working.

My nginx sites-available file looks like this:

server {
        listen 80;
        listen [::]:80;

        server_name website.com www.website.com;

        location / {
                root /var/www/website.com/html;
        index index.html index.htm index.php index.nginx-debian.html;
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }

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

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;


        }

}


server {
        listen 443;
        ssl on;
                # ssl_certificate
                ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/cert_chain.crt;
                # ssl_certificate_key
                ssl_certificate_key /root/website.com.key;

                server_name website.com website.com;
                access_log /var/log/nginx/nginx.vhost.access.log;
                error_log /var/log/nginx/nginx.vhost.error.log;
        location / {

                root /var/www/website.com/html;
        index index.php  index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

        }

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

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;


                }

}
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