Nginx's fastcgi-php.conf snippet is missing - php

Question

I'm attempting to serve PHP with nginx, i've followed this tutorial successfuly before but on a new server for some reason I get the following error:
nginx: [emerg] open() "/etc/nginx/snippets/fastcgi-php.conf" failed (2: No such file or directory)
In fact, the whole snippets directory of the nginx installation is missing.
I've installed PHP with the following commands:
- sudo apt-get install -y php7.0-cli php7.0-cgi php-fpm php-mysql
- sudo systemctl restart php7.0-fpm
I've installed the most up to date nginx that is available - and yet the directory and file is still not present.
How can this be remedied?
Bonus: What could have caused this?

Answer 1

TLDR:
Final version is:
location ~ \.php$ {
#NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
}
i think it depends on the Nginx version you are using.
For Nate's answer, nginx-full will install 1.10.3 for you.
I'm using Nginx 1.12.2 on Ubuntu 16.04, with this version, it doesn't have sites-enabled and sites-available with it; and it also has a different PHP CGI setup.
You can either use Ulad Kasach's solution, or start to use the new way.
Here's an official doc for how to do it: https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/recipes/wordpress/
BTW, in above post, you should also replace fastcgi.conf with fastcgi_params.
And add one more line which is in default orignially:
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
These are all new changes with Nginx 1.12.2 :(
Final version is:
location ~ \.php$ {
#NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
}

Answer 2

Ended up having to look at a previous, working, configurations file and replicating it manually. Simply made the snippets directory and added a fastcgi-php.conf file with the following content:
# regex to split $uri to $fastcgi_script_name and $fastcgi_path
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
# Check that the PHP script exists before passing it
try_files $fastcgi_script_name =404;
# Bypass the fact that try_files resets $fastcgi_path_info
# see: http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/321
set $path_info $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $path_info;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi.conf;
You'll also need to replace the last line, include fastcgi.conf; with include fastcgi_params;.
I would have recommended to create the file fastcgi.conf; if it was not literally the same file with the additional line fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; in the case of fastcgi.conf

Answer 3

Had me stumped for a moment too. You want to install the nginx-full package on ubuntu as opposed to just nginx. nginx-full contains the bits you were missing.

Answer 4

i am using
nginx/1.4.6
Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS
and my site config looks like this
server {
listen 3010;
root /usr/share/nginx/docs;
# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name phpSetup;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
and working nicely .
so i do recommend to update your
config
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
to
include fastcgi_params;
so the location block is
location ~ \.php$ {
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
}
HOPE IT HELPS
read more on :
https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/recipes/wordpress/
thanks,