title: Nginx PHP Page downloads instead of displaying
body: <p>This has been a struggle for the past two days. I've done a lot of searching, couldn't find anything to fix it. </p>
  
  <p>Here's my nginx.conf:</p>
  
  <pre><code> user www-data;
      worker_processes 4;
      pid /run/nginx.pid;
  
      events {
              worker_connections 768;
              # multi_accept on;
      }
  
      http {
  
              ##
              # Basic Settings
              ##
  
              sendfile on;
              tcp_nopush on;
              tcp_nodelay on;
              keepalive_timeout 65;
              types_hash_max_size 2048;
              # server_tokens off;
  
              # server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
              # server_name_in_redirect off;
  
              include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
              default_type application/octet-stream;
  
              ##
              # Logging Settings
              ##
  
              access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
              error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
  
              ##
              # Gzip Settings
              ##
  
              gzip on;
              gzip_disable "msie6";
  
              # gzip_vary on;
              # gzip_proxied any;
              # gzip_comp_level 6;
              # gzip_buffers 16 8k;
              # gzip_http_version 1.1;
              # gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
  
              ##
              # Virtual Host Configs
              ##
  
              include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
              include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here's my default file in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled:</p>
  
  <pre><code>server {
      listen 80 default_server;
      listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
  
      root /usr/share/nginx/html/;
      index index.php index.html index.htm;
  
      server_name [redacted server IP];
  
      location / {
          try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
      }
  
      error_page 404 /404.html;
      error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
      location = /50x.html {
          root /usr/share/nginx/html;
      }
  
      location ~ /admin/ {
          auth_basic "Restricted";
          auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/.htpasswd;
      }
  
      location ~ \.php$ {
          try_files $uri =404;
          fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
          fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
          fastcgi_index index.php;
          fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
          include fastcgi_params;
      }
  
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The page is stored in /usr/share/nginx/html/admin/index.php -- it prompts for the username/password (which works fine), but as soon as I login, it downloads instead of showing the php webpage. </p>
  
  <p>If I put the 'location ~ /admin/' block after the 'location ~ .php$' block, it works, but doesn't authenticate. </p>
  
  <p>There are scripts I wrote in another folder that work fine when called 'in the folder /usr/share/nginx/html/api/XXX.php' (which inserts stuff into the MySQL database), but it just returns JSON stuff. </p>
  
  <p><strong>You are awesome for helping me out, I really do appreciate it.</strong> </p>