Great tutorial. However I experienced problems with php files, for I received a 404 error everytime I tried to access my phpinfo.php file.

The root directory is /usr/share/nginx/html, BUT don't be fooled for having declared the index.php in the index line. That root directory is for static content. I spent like 2 hours literally going crazy because when you see a 404 error you might think Nginx is getting the root directory from another one... but in my case I edited the index.html and it got affected, so Nginx was indeed targeting that root directory.

Checking the error log file I see that for php files (I still don't know why)

What I did, according to my personal needs, was use the same root for all. I just stated it once at the server level and it'll be inherited by all the locations.

Here's my default.conf file:

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  www.alemany.me;

    #charset koi8-r;
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/alemany.access.log  main;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/alemany.error.log;

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

    error_page 404 /404.html;
    error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
        root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    }

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

I'm not being redundant here. I might be jumping a couple of things here.

Anyway, this is how I worked around this and it's up and running right now.

Best regards.
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    damijanc
    damijanc March 18, 2015

    Did you check file access permissions. You need read permissions. This is typical error.

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alainalemany
alainalemany March 18, 2015

I don't think that was the problem. Everytime I tried to access my index.php and got the 404 error, I checked in the logs and by unknown reasons Nginx was looking for the php file in /etc/nginx/html/index.php as you can see below:

2015/03/18 09:37:13 [error] 13192#0: *1 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Unable to open primary script: /etc/nginx/html/index.php (No such file or directory)" while reading response header from upstream, client: 200.55.154.30, server: www.alemany.me, request: "GET /index.php HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000", host: "www.alemany.me"

I worked around this as I mention previously. If there's a more orthodoxe way, please share it with me.
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damijanc
damijanc March 18, 2015

One more thing.

you root is pointing to

root /usr/share/nginx/html

You should change this if you want it to point somewhere else.

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akef
akef March 23, 2015

work foot
thank you
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sthiina
sthiina April 22, 2015

sudo vi /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
im not having above path. pleae help.
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    dmgap
    dmgap July 3, 2015

    Maybe you do not install php-fpm yet?Or you can find it in whole etc path like:
    sudo find /etc -name "www.conf"

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saw
saw August 30, 2015

Hi, I got some issues start from step four: Configure Nginx to Process PHP Pages

After I typed this $ sudo vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf. I can't find

```server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;

location / {
    root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
    index  index.html index.htm;
}
error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
    root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
}

}```

..to make an edit. It just showing me as a blank. Here's the screencast

I sent a ticket to windows.nginx.apache.kvm.www.digitaloceandatacenters.info Support, they told me to force go on but I can't put this <?php phpinfo(); ?> in the file at** step five**.

Guys, help me!
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NearlyNormal September 5, 2015

I installed this way, and it only installed php 5.4. When I upgraded to php 5.6 with "yum install php56w-common"....etc, now Nginx and php-fpm are not linked to each other.

The default php56w* does not seem to install the php-fpm at this location:
/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock

What should be the path? Do I need to change it in /etc/php-fpm.conf or something?
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    NearlyNormal September 5, 2015

    Any PHP from Nginx is giving me 502 bad gateway error.

    My /etc/php-fpm.conf file has the following:

    pid = /var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock

    Should I leave that as the default "pid = /var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.pid" instead? What' the difference between sock and pid?

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iamkingsleyf
iamkingsleyf October 1, 2015

Thanks but how do I create virtual host for my wordpress sites?
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fixwen
fixwen October 31, 2015

hello , i had some problems,
I install the php5.6 but the nginx cannot work with it,how to config the php5.6 and make it work with nginx

centos7 + php5.6 + nginx
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djtthompson
djtthompson November 9, 2015

Centos 7 users: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23443398/nginx-error-connect-to-php5-fpm-sock-failed-13-permission-denied
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geo.sukarno
geo.sukarno December 21, 2015

Thanks for you comprehensive tutorial.
My web server is up and running, but cannot process the php script.
Every time i open http://geosukarno.com/info.php , the info.php always served as download file.

You can see my Nginx's /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf at this txt file:
http://geosukarno.com/nginx__default.conf.txt

I tried: systemctl restart nginx
and: systemctl restart php-fpm
didn't help.

Is somebody can help me, what i'm miss, that php script cannot be processed?
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    geo.sukarno
    geo.sukarno December 22, 2015

    I think i miss something.
    8 hours until 6 hours ago, after i tried using SSL (http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_7&p=nginx&f=4), i tried some troubleshooting, such as restart the droplets, make sure the nginx's default.conf as same as tutorial's , still nginx cannot process the php script.

    I always tried call info.php on https protocol (http://geosukarno.com/info.php), still nginx didn't process the php script.
    Now after 8 hour, i accidently call info.php on http protocol, and it's work. Nginx can process the php script.
    This 8 hours long, i didn't realize nginx already can process the php script, but on http protocol.

    So, another problem still not solved yet.
    Why nginx cannot process php script when it called on https protocol?
    Every time i open http://geosukarno.com/info.php , the info.php always served as download file.

    I made SSL certificate by following tutorial from server-world.info
    http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_7&p=nginx&f=4

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    geo.sukarno
    geo.sukarno December 22, 2015

    Now i know why nginx didn't process php script on http protocol.
    Because at early time, in nginx's /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf , i'm using wrong servername.
    I was using servername gitu;
    gitu is my hostname.
    But my domain for this droplet is geosukarno.com
    Thats why nginx didn't process the php script on http protocol.

    You can see my first Nginx's /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf that made nginx cannot process php script on http protocol at this txt file:
    http://geosukarno.com/nginx1default.conf.txt
    http://geosukarno.com/nginx1default.conf.txt

    But until now, nginx still cannot process php script on https protocol.

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geo.sukarno
geo.sukarno December 22, 2015
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geo.sukarno
geo.sukarno December 22, 2015

I found why php script cannot be processed when called with https protocol on my nginx.

The mistake is,
regarding to server-world.info's tutorial
(http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_7&p=nginx&f=4)
i put these 3 statements in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

listen      443 ssl;
ssl_certificate     /etc/pki/tls/certs/server.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/pki/tls/certs/server.key;

Regarding to this tutorial, we using Nginx server block configuration file in
/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

Then i move those 3 statements from
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
into
/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

You can see my Nginx server block configuration file
/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
at
http://geosukarno.com/nginx3default.conf.txt

Maybe you wondering what's another statements on my default.conf ?
Well i got that configuration statements from chrismeller's tutorial:
http://blog.chrismeller.com/configuring-and-optimizing-php-fpm-and-nginx-on-ubuntu-or-debian

Now my nginx can process php script on http and https protocol.
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