Parse HTML as PHP w/ LEMP stack

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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;
    }

Hope that this helps. Regards, Bobby

Update the Server Block Add a location block to handle .html files like .php files. Modify your server block to include the following:

server {
    server_name yourdomain.com www.yourdomain.com;

    root /var/www/html;
    index index.php index.html;

    # Existing PHP configuration
    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;  # Adjust PHP version if needed
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    # Parse .html files as PHP
    location ~ \.html$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    error_log /var/log/nginx/yourdomain-error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/yourdomain-access.log;
}

• Replace /var/www/html with the root directory of your website.
• Adjust php7.4-fpm.sock to match the PHP version installed on your server (e.g., php8.0-fpm.sock).