Getting rid of "Welcome to nginx!"

Question

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;
    }
}

You're sure that you have no other sites in sites-enabled that might be conflicting? — pauska, Aug 16 '11 at 17:15
BTW: Weird config with rewrites and custom fastcgi_param's, are you using some kind of howto or application specific guide? — pauska, Aug 16 '11 at 17:17
No other sites in either `sites-enabled` or `sites-available`! — Industrial, Aug 16 '11 at 17:32

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 16 '11 at 17:22

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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.

answered Aug 16 '11 at 17:22

pauska

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Hi Pauska. unfortunately not - deleted the default and reloaded & restarted multiple times since :( – Industrial Aug 16 '11 at 17:32
No difference with or without the custom `fastcgi_params` inside the ` location ~ \.php`-section – Industrial Aug 16 '11 at 17:56

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 14 '21 at 01:32

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

answered Aug 14 '21 at 01:32

brunorm

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Is that a comment? Because for my eyes it isn't an answer. – djdomi Aug 17 '21 at 13:17
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I tried to make a comment, but the system said "You must have 50 reputation to comment". – brunorm Aug 18 '21 at 14:49

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 16 '11 at 19:14

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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.

answered Aug 16 '11 at 19:14

cjc

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Hi cjc. I tried both to append `try_files` inside my `location /` as well as outside of it. No change – Industrial Aug 16 '11 at 19:47
Did you use /index.php as the last argument? – cjc Aug 16 '11 at 19:56
Yep! ` location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php; } ` – Industrial Aug 16 '11 at 20:00
The other suggested thing was to have "try_files $uri $uri/ @php;" and then a @php location block with your FCGI configuration. – cjc Aug 16 '11 at 20:05

Getting rid of "Welcome to nginx!"

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