By ronerazo
I have Nginx running and I’m trying to execute php scripts with it, I’m using the following tutorial as a guide:
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: <pre> 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;
} </pre> 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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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>
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.
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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