nginx and php5-fpm works only with ip address - php

Question

I'm using Ubuntu 13 and I've installed nginx and php5-fpm; before that I had PHP5 and apache installed; which I removed
/etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
user = www-data
group = www-data
listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock
listen.owner = www-data
listen.group = www-data
pm = dynamic
pm.max_children = 5
pm.start_servers = 2
pm.min_spare_servers = 1
pm.max_spare_servers = 3
chdir = /
nginx config file :
upstream php {
server unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.socket;
}
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
# Make site accessible from http://localhost/
server_name localhost;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
# Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
# include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
When I try
http://local.host/info.php
It downloads the info.php file instead of executing the file
But when I try:
http://my.ip.address/info.php
it shows the phpinfo() function
where is the problem ?

Answer 1

You could try changing you config a bit:
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
//fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_pass localhost:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
and your www.conf:
listen = localhost:9000
;listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock

Answer 2

Change line to server_name localhost local.host 127.0.0.1; (are you sure http://local(dot)host is not a typo?)
Check /etc/hostnames and if it differs from above, add it in too. Also check that you dont have another entry server{ ... } entry that listens to same port 80.
Check the folder /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/, the default filename also contains server{...} parameters. The http{...} block is found in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and sometimes may contain the server{...} block.