Config assistance with nginx & php5-fpm on ubuntu - nginx

Question

I am trying to configure nginx with php-fpm (php v 5.3.5) on ubuntu 11. Both nginx and php5-fpm are set to run as www-data. nginx appears to serve html files but php files are not being served (log files generate a 404 error). php5-fpm is running and listening on the same port that nginx is attempting to connect on (9000). Config files are copied below. Files are located in /var/www (www-data has read/write access to all files within that directory).
How can I go about troubleshooting this issue in order to figure out whether php5-fpm is even properly receiving the request from nginx and whether it is unable to process the request because of incorrect privileges/incorrect config file location.
Any help would be appreciated.
nginx.conf file:
user www-data;
worker_processes 4;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 768;
}
http
{
include mime.types;
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
# server_tokens off;
server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
# server_name_in_redirect off;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
gzip on;
gzip_disable "msie6";
gzip_comp_level 2;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_types text/plain text/css text/javascript application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss;
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}
default file in sites (enabled/available) folder:
default
server
{
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
access_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.access.log;
location / {
root /var/www;
index index.html index.php;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
}
location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|xml)$ {
access_log off;
expires 30d;
root /var/www;
}
## Disable viewing .htaccess & .htpassword
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
include php.conf;
}
php.config file in nginx directory:
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
location ~ \.php$
{
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT /var/www;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;
fastcgi_param GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT $remote_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name;
fastcgi_read_timeout 600; # Set fairly high for debugging
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
}
log file output for php5-fpm:
configuration file /etc/php5/fpm/main.conf test is successful
log file output from nginx:
"GET /index.php HTTP/1.1" 404 31 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.220 Safari/535.1"

Answer 1

aTo answer the original question. In you vhost configuration a part is missing, telling nginx what to do with the PHP files.
Example:
location ~ \.php$ {
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME PATH_TO_YOUR_WEBSITE_ROOT$fastcgi_script_name;
}
You could also look at https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-lemp-stack-on-ubuntu-12-04 and if you plan to run multiple vhosts https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-optimize-nginx-with-php-pools-on-an-ubuntu-13-04-vps
Both tutorials show in a good way how to setup everything.

Answer 2

You're missing a bit in your server block that is meant to pass php files over php5-fpm.
e.g.
location ~ .php$ {
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www$fastcgi_script_name;
}
To write a new server block (the bit in /site-enabled), try using this tool.