Ubuntu – nginx and php5-fpm not working

nginxPHP

before anything i searched everywhere and tested everything
but still not working
i install php5-fpm and nginx
when i open localhost in browser i see this page :

Welcome to nginx!

so its working now configuring php5-fpm with nginx :

/etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf

  user = www-data
  group = www-data
  listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock
  listen.owner = www-data
  listen.group = www-data
  pm = dynamic
  pm.max_children = 5
  pm.start_servers = 2
  pm.min_spare_servers = 1
  pm.max_spare_servers = 3
  chdir = /

all other lines are commented and this is the nginx conf :

  upstream php {
        server unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.socket;
  }

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

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

# 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/ =404;
    # Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
    # include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
}

# Only for nginx-naxsi used with nginx-naxsi-ui : process denied requests
#location /RequestDenied {
#   proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;    
#}

#error_page 404 /404.html;

# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
#
#error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
#location = /50x.html {
#   root /usr/share/nginx/html;
#}

# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
#
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;

}

# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
#location ~ /\.ht {
#   allow all;
#}
}

the problem is when i try to run php files nginx will download php file instead of executing it

Best Answer

PHP-FPM socket permissions

Please check that the socket has proper permissions.

$ ll /var/run/php5-fpm.sock
srw-rw---- 1 www-data www-data 0 Aug  6 14:16 /var/run/php5-fpm.sock=

Probably add listen.mode = 0660 to your www.conf if the output is different.

Possibly related: nginx error connect to php5-fpm.sock failed (13: Permission denied)

nginx configuration

  1. Is this really where your files are?

    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    index index.html index.htm index.php;
    
  2. What is this block supposed to do?

      upstream php {
            server unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.socket;
      }
    
  3. I'd suggest removing try_files $uri =404; from the location ~ \.php$ block.

  4. Why is the indentation of the lines in 2 and 3 different from the rest? Note that it would affect a proper configuration, but this leaves the impression that they have been carelessly pasted together. Please provide a link to the instructions you used.

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