Nginx - php fpm index file being sent

Question

I have a simple nginx setup and things work fine.

I have set the index as follows:

index index.html index.php

The server_name is set to local.nginx. If i request http://local.nginx it works fine, but if i request http://local.nginx/index.php - the raw file is sent to the browser.

What is wrong?

Please see my config below:

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  local.nginx;
    root         /var/www/local.nginx/;
    index       index.html index.php;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        fastcgi_params;
    }
}

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EDIT

I discovered this was only happening in chrome. After clearing the browser cache the problem disappeared. Can anyone explain what happened here ?

Answer 1

If while testing, your PHP configuration was not working, Chrome will have cached the raw .php file and continued to serve that.

Please be careful with your PHP configuration, especially if you'll be accepting uploads or saving any input to files in the document root, as it's possible to add path info to a url and get the PHP interpreter to execute it, e.g.

http://local.nginx/uploads/myfile.txt/oops.php