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Asked: 2011-08-17 09:06:56 +0800 CST

Getting rid of "Welcome to nginx!"

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I've just setup nginx on my Ubuntu staging machince. Entering http://192.168.1.1./index.php works like a charm and loads the index.php file i've put in the /var/www/public_html folder. http://192.168.1.1 however instead shows the Welcome to nginx! page and not my index.php file.

What am I doing wrong? Here's my nginx config:

server {

    listen 80 default;
    root /var/www/public_html;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;
    server_name _;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}
php nginx php-fpm

3 Answers

  1. I'm guessing that you still have the default site config in sites-enabled, and that it's alphabetically sorted higher than your custom config. The default config will catch any request without known host headers, and use index.html as index.

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  2. Best Answer

    Looking at the documentation for try_files: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#try_files, you probably should have something like:

    location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html /index.php;
}

    Take a look at the examples for Drupal, Wordpress, FastCGI, etc.

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  3. I had that same problem. It was solved when I changed the folder permissions of the index.html file.

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