File Not Found when running PHP with Nginx

Question

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:<

Answer 1

The error message “Primary script unknown or in your case is file not found.” is almost always related to a wrongly set in line SCRIPT_FILENAME in the Nginx fastcgi_param directive (Quote from https://serverfault.com/a/517327/560171).

In my case, I use Nginx 1.17.10 and my configuration is:

    location ~ \.php$ {
      fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
      fastcgi_index index.php;
      fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
      include fastcgi_params;
      fastcgi_read_timeout 600;
    }

You just change $document_root to $realpath_root, so whatever your root location, like /var/www/html/project/, you don't need write fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/html/project$fastcgi_script_name; each time your root is changes. This configuration is more flexible. May this helps.

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For more information, if you got unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock failed (13: Permission denied) while connecting to upstream, just change in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf, from user nginx; to user www-data;.

Because the default user and group of PHP-FPM process is www-data as can be seen in /etc/php/7.2/fpm/pool.d/www.conf file (Qoute from https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/install-nginx-latest-version-ubuntu-18-04):

user = www-data
group = www-data

May this information gives a big help

Answer 2

Try another *fastcgi_param* something like

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/share/nginx/html$fastcgi_script_name;

Answer 3

I had the "file not found" problem, so I moved the "root" definition up into the "server" bracket to provide a default value for all the locations. You can always override this by giving any location it's own root.

server {
    root /usr/share/nginx/www;
    location / {
            #root /usr/share/nginx/www;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
            try_files $uri =404;
            fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
            fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
            fastcgi_index index.php;
            include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

Alternatively, I could have defined root in both my locations.

Answer 4

I had this error as well. In my case it was because there was another virtual host that was pointing to the same root directory.

Answer 5

After upgrading to PHP72, we had an issue where the php-fpm.d/www.conf lost the settings for user/group which was causing this error. Be sure to double check those if your setup involves php-fpm.

Answer 6

my case: I used relative dir

       location ~* \.(css|js)\.php$ {

            root ../dolibarr/htdocs;

            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
            fastcgi_index index.php;

             include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
       }

this line did not work too : fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /vagrant/www/p1/../p2/htdocs/core/js/lib_head.js.php;

So I discovered fastcgi_param does not support relative path.

This works

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /vagrant/www/p2/htdocs/core/js/lib_head.js.php;