Parse HTML as PHP w/ LEMP stack

Posted April 6, 2021
Nginx PHP LEMP

I installed the LEMP package from the marketplace, and I’d like to host a website that relies on having HTML files parsed as PHP. I can find instrucions for doing this with Apache, but not nginx. Is there an easy way to do this, or should I just start over with a LAMP installation?

Robb101

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Bobby Iliev • April 6, 2021

Hi there,

Yes, this is also doable with Nginx as well as Apache.

You need to duplicate the .php location rule and add one for .htm$.

So the configuration will look like this, depending on yuor PHP configuration:

    location ~ \.htm$ {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }