Nginx Serves .PHP Files as Downloads, Instead of Executing Them

Nginx serves .php files as downloads, instead of executing them

Try this:

1. Edit /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

2. Uncomment both listen lines to make nginx listen on port 80 IPv4 and IPv6.

    listen   80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
    listen   [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6
   

3. Leave server_name alone

    # Make site accessible (...)
    server_name localhost;
   

4. Add index.php to the index line

    root /usr/share/nginx/www;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;
   

5. Uncomment location ~ \.php$ {}

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on (...)
    #
    location ~ \.php$ {
            try_files $uri =404;
            fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(/.+)?$;
            # NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
   
            # With php5-cgi alone:
            #fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
            # With php5-fpm:
            fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
            fastcgi_index index.php;
            include fastcgi_params;
    }
   

6. Edit /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini and make sure cgi.fix_pathinfo is set to 0

7. Restart nginx and php5-fpm sudo service nginx restart && sudo service php5-fpm restart

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NGINX downloads PHP file instead of showing

Please try this smaller example.

location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    }

And double check if your php-fpm is running:

sudo systemctl status php7.1-fpm.service

Php file gets downloaded instead of executing on OSX with Nginx server

root           html;
must be changed with path to your web, 
root   /Users/username/Sites;

replace with this in your location php section:

 fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

Nginx downloads php instead of running it

I just had this exact same problem. I was using Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint 14 so different OS but likely to have the same issues.

A couple of issues may happening. Firstly, you need to have php5-fpm installed (FastCGI Process Manager). I was trying to run it with my standard version of PHP but it was not working - http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.fpm.php

I also had Apache installed, and even if it weren't running it must have had some conflict because once I uninstalled Apache I was able to execute the PHP files.

I would also look at this line

fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;

And consider changing it to

fastcgi_pass   unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;

Here is a detailed guide to installation of Nginx and PHP5-FPM for RHEL (and other OS's)

http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2011/install-nginx-php-fpm-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/

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