nginx showing blank PHP pages

Question

I have setup an nginx server with php5-fpm. When I try to load the site I get a blank page with no errors. Html pages are served fine but not php. I tried turning on disp

Answer 1

None of the above answers worked for me - PHP was properly rendering everything except pages that relied on mysqli, for which it was sending a blank page with a 200 response code and not throwing any errors. As I'm on OS X, the fix was simply

sudo port install php56-mysql

followed by a restart of PHP-FPM and nginx.

I was migrating from an older Apache/PHP setup to nginx, and failed to notice the version mismatch in the driver for php-mysql and php-fpm.