Andrey Andreevsky's questions

I'm trying to achieve following thing. I've main website under domain root directory. It's working fine. i.e PHP files are executed. After some time I've added "auth" directory with basic HTTP authentication. Next, I uploaded PHP program into "auth" directory, but PHP files are downloading instead of executing.

• domain.name/test.php -> executing
• domain.name/sub/file.php -> executing
• domain.name/auth/protected.php -> downloading instead of executing

Here is sites-available conf

server {
    charset utf-8;

    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 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 xxx.com;

    location / {
        # First attempt to serve request as file, then
        # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
        # try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

    location ^~ /auth {
        auth_basic "Restricted Content";
        auth_basic_user_file /var/www/html/auth/.htpasswd;
    }

    location ^~ /protected {
        deny all;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;

        # With php5-fpm:
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
    }

    location ~ /\.(ht|git|svn) {
        deny all;
    }
}

Currently I've following solution, but I believe it's not a right way.

    location ^~ /auth {
        auth_basic "Restricted Content";
        auth_basic_user_file /var/www/html/auth/.htpasswd;
        location ~ \.php$ {
            include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;

            # With php5-fpm:
            fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        }
    }

Following solution doesn't work

        location ^~ /auth {
                auth_basic "Restricted Content";
                auth_basic_user_file /var/www/html/auth/.htpasswd;
                try_files $uri @php-fpm;
        }

        location @php-fpm {
                include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        }

I am new to linux + nginx. I've installed nginx and tried to do some modifications in ~/sites-available/default file but forgot to make a backup of this file. So, now I get following error:

nginx: [emerg] "server" directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/sites-available/default:16 nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/sites-available/default test failed

Please, tell me where the error is. Here is default file:

##
# You should look at the following URL's in order to grasp a solid understanding
# of Nginx configuration files in order to fully unleash the power of Nginx.
#
# Generally, you will want to move this file somewhere, and start with a clean
# file but keep this around for reference. Or just disable in sites-enabled.
#
# Please see /usr/share/doc/nginx-doc/examples/ for more detailed examples.
#

# Default server configuration
#
server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server;

    # SSL configuration
    #
    # listen 443 ssl default_server;
    # listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
    #
    # Self signed certs generated by the ssl-cert package
    # Don't use them in a production server!
    #
    # include snippets/snakeoil.conf;

    root /var/www/html;

    # Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
    index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

    server_name _;

    location / {
        # First attempt to serve request as file, then
        # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
    #
    #location ~ \.php$ {
    #   include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    #
    #   # With php5-cgi alone:
    #   fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
    #   # With php5-fpm:
    #   fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
    #}

    # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
    # concurs with nginx's one
    #
    #location ~ /\.ht {
    #   deny all;
    #}
}


# Virtual Host configuration for example.com
#
# You can move that to a different file under sites-available/ and symlink that
# to sites-enabled/ to enable it.
#
#server {
#   listen 80;
#   listen [::]:80;
#
#   server_name example.com;
#
#   root /var/www/example.com;
#   index index.html;
#
#   location / {
#       try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
#   }
#}