title: Nginx not finding PHP files
body: <p>I've been searching through all the questions asked and all answers haven't worked. I'm trying to install Damn Vulnerable Web App to my Centos 6.9 server, but when I try to access the page, I'm greeted with a 404 File Not Found error. I can access html files perfectly, just not PHP. </p>
  
  <p>/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:</p>
  
  <pre><code>server {
  listen   80;
  server_name  localhost;
  
  location / {
      root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
      index  index.html index.htm index.php;
  }
  
  error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
  location = /50x.html {
      root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
  }
  
  location ~ \.php$ {
      root           html;
      fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
      fastcgi_index  index.php;
      fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
      include        fastcgi_params;
  }
  
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can anyone help at all please? </p>
  
  <p>UPDATE:
  After multiple attempts, below are the updated files. Now getting a 'File Not Found' even though the files reside within the root directory stated in the default.conf file. </p>
  
  <p>/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf:</p>
  
  <pre><code>server {
  listen   80;
  server_name  localhost;
  root /usr/share/nginx/html;
  
  location / {
     # root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
      #index  index.html index.htm index.php;
  }
  
  error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
  location = /50x.html {
      root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
  }
  location ~ \.php$ {
      include        fastcgi_params;
      root           html;
      fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
      fastcgi_index  index.php;
      fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
      try_files $uri =404;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>}</p>
  
  <p>/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params:</p>
  
  <pre><code>fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING   $query_string;
  fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
  fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE   $content_type;
  fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;
  
  fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
  fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
  fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI   $document_uri;
  fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      $document_root;
  fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;
  fastcgi_param  REQUEST_SCHEME     $scheme;
  fastcgi_param  HTTPS              $https if_not_empty;
  fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
  fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;
  fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx/$nginx_version;
  
  fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
  fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
  fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
  fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
  fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;
  
  # PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
  fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The changes seen in other questions haven't had any positive effect.</p>
  
  <p>THIS HAS BEEN SOLVED.
  The location in default.conf was pointing to 'html' where it should have been '/usr/share/nginx/html'.</p>