php is being downloaded instead of being loaded - php

Question

I got a nginx docker container which actually works. Because when i do curl localhost:7070 on my host i get the content of the site as return. Then i made a config for nginx on my host, the problem is when i try to open the site in a browser it downloads the php file. I will sahre both configs of host nginx and docker nginx.
Nginx host conf:
server {
#listen 80 default_server;
#listen [::]:80 default_server;
# SSL configuration
listen 7171 ssl default_server;
listen [::]:7171 ssl default_server;
root /var/www/html;
# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name SERVERNAME;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:7070;
#proxy_redirect off;
#proxy_set_header Host $host;
#proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
#proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
#proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
}
}
nginx docker conf:
server {
listen 80;
server_name default_server;
root /usr/share/nginx/selfoss;
index index.php index.html;
location ~* \ (gif|jpg|png) {
expires 30d;
}
location ~ ^/(favicons|thumbnails)/.*$ {
try_files $uri /data/$uri;
}
location ~* ^/(data\/logs|data\/sqlite|config\.ini|\.ht) {
deny all;
}
location / {
index index.php;
try_files $uri /public/$uri /index.php$is_args$args;
}
}
I know alittle about nginx normal config but im noob at php so what is the thing that im missing here?
I have seen posts about php-fpm and fastcgi but i have no clue ho or where to do that config changes.

Answer 1

You are missing a configured PHP-FPM in your Nginx-Config and of course a running PHP-FPM (inside the same Docker-Container or in a separate Docker-Container).
Example Nginx-Config inside your server{} section
location ~ \.php {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_buffers 16 16k;
fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;
include fastcgi_params;
proxy_read_timeout 300;
fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/sockets/php/www.sock;
}