By Temple Pate
Okay, so the title is a little misleading.
I have fully installed WP on my server, but when I try to connect to it, it just downloads the index.php file, and doesn’t actually run the website. I have ensured that it is executable.
server {
listen 80 default_server; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
#listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6
root /var/www/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
# Make site accessible from http://localhost/
server_name localhost;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
# Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
# include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
This is the only thing I have changed, the rest is default nginx config.
One thing at a time, I’ll be asking further questions soon.
P.S. there is no errors in the log.
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It appears you are missing the FastCGI section of the nginx configuration file. Adding this:
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
and restarting nginx with
service nginx restart
Should have your PHP files being executed properly rather than displayed as plain text.
I just got a new server and it is working fine. I wish I could’ve found out what the issue was but I havn’t seen it since.
A 502 on a LEMP setup usually indicates that php5-fpm is not running. Try restarting the php5-fpm service with the command:
service php5-fpm restart
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