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

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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

I have just started using Linux a week ago, so I really hope to help you on this. I am using nano text editor to edit the files. run apt-get install nano if you don’t have it. Google on it to know more.

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