Problems parsing PHP code in HTML files with Nginx FastCGI? - php

Question

I am trying to migrate my website from LAMP to NGINX FastCGI on Linux on AWS and I am having problems trying to parse PHP in some legacy .htm files on my site.
I have tried the solutions listed here:
HTML files as PHP in Nginx
php code inside html files not executed
NGINX execute embedded PHP in HTML file
Specifically, I am using:
location ~ \.(php|html|htm)$ {
and
security.limit_extensions = .php .htm .html
in my /etc/nginx/sites-available/mybrokensite.com and /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf files.
When I open the .htm files in my browser, I just get a blank page. When I view source, I see the entire raw php and html in the file. If I rename the file with a .php extension it interprets the php and I get the formatted html file that I expect in my browser.
I used the following steps to setup my NGINX FastCGI Wordpress server:
https://gist.github.com/ericandrewlewis/95239573dc97c0e86714
Here is my config:
# Define the microcache path.
fastcgi_cache_path /etc/nginx/cache levels=1:2 keys_zone=microcache:100m inactive=60m;
# Redirect http traffic to https
server {
listen [::]:80;
listen 80;
server_name www.mybrokensite.com mybrokensite.com;
return 301 https://mybrokensite.com$request_uri;
}
# Redirect www https traffic to non-www https
server {
listen 443 ssl;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/sslmate/mybrokensite.com.key;
ssl_certificate /etc/sslmate/mybrokensite.com.chained.crt;
server_name www.mybrokensite.com;
return 301 https://mybrokensite.com$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name mybrokensite.com;
# Include defaults for allowed SSL/TLS protocols and handshake caches.
include h5bp/directive-only/ssl.conf;
# config to enable HSTS(HTTP Strict Transport Security) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Security/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security
# to avoid ssl stripping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSL_stripping#SSL_stripping
add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains;";
ssl_certificate_key /etc/sslmate/mybrokensite.com.key;
ssl_certificate /etc/sslmate/mybrokensite.com.chained.crt;
# Path for static files
root /sites/mybrokensite.com/public;
#Specify a charset
charset utf-8;
# Include the basic h5bp config set
include h5bp/basic.conf;
location / {
index index.php;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.(php|html|htm)$ {
fastcgi_cache microcache;
fastcgi_cache_key $scheme$host$request_method$request_uri;
fastcgi_cache_valid 200 304 10m;
fastcgi_cache_use_stale updating;
fastcgi_max_temp_file_size 1M;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
# Local variables to track whether to serve a microcached page or not.
set $no_cache_set 0;
set $no_cache_get 0;
# If a request comes in with a X-Nginx-Cache-Purge: 1 header, do not grab from cache
# But note that we will still store to cache
# We use this to proactively update items in the cache!
if ( $http_x_nginx_cache_purge ) {
set $no_cache_get 1;
}
# If the user has a user logged-in cookie, circumvent the microcache.
if ( $http_cookie ~* "comment_author_|wordpress_(?!test_cookie)|wp-postpass_" ) {
set $no_cache_set 1;
set $no_cache_get 1;
}
# fastcgi_no_cache means "Do not store this proxy response in the cache"
fastcgi_no_cache $no_cache_set;
# fastcgi_cache_bypass means "Do not look in the cache for this request"
fastcgi_cache_bypass $no_cache_get;
}
}
My site is mostly a Wordpress site with some legacy .htm files with php in them. I am new to NGINX and any help would be greatly appreciated.