Recently I installed the latest version of Nginx and looks like I\'m having hard time running PHP with it.
Here is the configuration file I\'m using for the domain:<
in case it helps someone, my issue seems to be just because I was using a subfolder under my home directory, even though permissions seem correct and I don't have SELinux or anything like that. changing it to be under /var/www/something/something made it work.
(if I ever found the real cause, and remember this answer, I'll update it)