NGINX always forces a download of PHP page

Question

I'm trying to create an NGINX config for PHP that will run on a docker setup. Using some NGINX/PHP guides online, I created a conf file intended to get all requests to the server except files that exist, but when I hit the base url, Chrome downloads a file with the content of my index.php, unprocessed. If I hit any other page, I 404.

server {
    index index.php;
    server_name gamersplane.local;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
    root /var/www/api;

    location .* {
        try_files $uri =404;
        rewrite .* index.php;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass api:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param HTTP_PROXY '';
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
    }
}

I feel like I'm supposed to create a location block for anything not .php, before the existing location block, but I can't seem to figure out where I've gone wrong. Is the conf wrong, or is there something wrong with my docker setup that's preventing communication? Not sure how to tell which.

I just tried your config and it works great. Only difference between your and my configuration is `fastcgi_pass` try to change this line.. `api:9000` looks weird I think it is the problem. For example I use php-fpm socket: `fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;` — Eflyax, Dec 11 '18 at 04:51
So maybe its the docker side of it that's the problem. From what I've read, as my php-fpm is on a different container, I need to use the name I assign to it, in this case, api. — Rohit, Dec 11 '18 at 04:56
@RhoVisions can you change `api` to container IP address and try? — Ivan Shatsky, Dec 11 '18 at 05:00
@IvanShatsky I may not understand docker correctly, but don't think containers have internal IPs you can access outside the network? If you can, I don't know how and can't seem to find how. — Rohit, Dec 11 '18 at 05:08
Try to change directive `location .* {` to `location ~ \.php$ {` and remove line `rewrite .* index.php;` — Eflyax, Dec 11 '18 at 05:15
@JakubZáruba That results in `File not found`, though wouldn't that eliminate the part where all requests are directed to one file? — Rohit, Dec 11 '18 at 05:19
That results in `File not found` even if you directly requests `gamersplane.local/index.php`? — Ivan Shatsky, Dec 11 '18 at 05:22
I'm not familiar with dockers, I think of them as some special kind of VM, but I read [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17157721/how-to-get-a-docker-containers-ip-address-from-the-host) and think that you can try to temporary replace `api` with IP address and test it. — Ivan Shatsky, Dec 11 '18 at 05:33

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 11 '18 at 05:30

Can you try this config?

server {
    index index.php;
    server_name gamersplane.local;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
    root /var/www/api;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }
    location ~ [^/]\.php(/.*$|$) {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.*[^/]\.php)(/.*$|$);
        fastcgi_pass api:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param HTTP_PROXY '';
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
    }
}

This might work, but I'm not sure about api:9000 backend.

NGINX always forces a download of PHP page

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