PHP files are DOWNLOADING instead of EXECUTING on nginx

Hi All,

It looks like Nginx can’t pass the php file to php-fpm.sock which results in download of php files instead of execution. Please help.

I set cgi.fix_pathinfo=0 inside /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini

I set listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock inside /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf

My Droplet: Ubuntu 14.04 x64\Laravel 4\nginx\PHP-FPC

All packages seem to be latest - I got everything yesterday via apt-get update/upgrade.

//////////////////Start nginx config /etc/nginx/sites-available/default////////////

server {
        listen 80 default_server;
        listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

        root /var/www/laravel/public;
        index index.php index.html index.htm;

        server_name MY_SERVER_IP_IS_HERE;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
                try_files $uri /index.php =404;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                include fastcgi_params;
        }
}

//////////////////End nginx config/////////////////