Kamal Nasser

Highlighting .phps Files in Nginx

December 12 2012 ▪ post

In most Apache and mod_php setups, .phps are not executed as php files, but are rather passed to mod_php which highlights them as PHP code and displays them to the browser.

When I switched to Nginx, I still wanted to share php files that way. A quick and easy way to "fix" that is as follows:

Example: info.phps

The whole thing is made out of 1 file: phps.php

Once you download that file:

  1. Put it in a directory that has a recursive o+x (all its parents have o+x)
  2. Chown the files to you:you
  3. Chmod the files 664

All that is left now is the Nginx configuration:

location ~ \.phps$ {
    try_files $uri =404;
    fastcgi_pass    unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_param   DOCUMENT_ROOT    $document_root;
    fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_NAME      $uri;
    fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME  /path/to/phps.php;
    include fastcgi_params;
}

And you are done! Rehash Nginx and voila!