nginx showing blank PHP pages

replace

include fastcgi_params;

with

include fastcgi.conf;

and remove fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME ... in nginx.conf

For reference, I am attaching my location block for catching files with the .php extension:

location ~ \.php$ {
    include /path/to/fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
}

Double-check the /path/to/fastcgi-params, and make sure that it is present and readable by the nginx user.

Also had this issue and finally found the solution here. In short, you need to add the following line to your nginx fastcgi config file (/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params in Ubuntu 12.04)

fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

Many users fall in this thread expecting to find a solution for blank pages being displayed while using nginx+php-fpm, me being one of them. This is a recap of what I ended up doing after reading many of the answers here plus my own investigations (updated to php7.2):

1) Open /etc/php/7.2/fpm/pool.d/www.conf and check the value of parameter listen.

listen = /var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock

2) Parameter listen should match fastcgi_pass parameter in your site configuration file (i,e: /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default).

fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;

3) Check the file actually exists:

$ file /var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock 
/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock: socket

4) If it doesn't exist that means php7.2-fpm is not running, so you need to restart it:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/php7.2-fpm restart
[ ok ] Restarting php7.2-fpm (via systemctl): php7.2-fpm.service.

With regard to the location section in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:

   # pass PHP scripts to FastCGI server
   #
   location ~ \.php$ {
      include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;

      # With php-fpm (or other unix sockets):
      fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
   }

Check the file snippets/fastcgi-php.conf exists at location /etc/nginx/:

$ file /etc/nginx/snippets/fastcgi-php.conf
/etc/nginx/snippets/fastcgi-php.conf: ASCII text

This file contains a list of variable definitions required by php7.2-fpm. The variables are defined directly or through an include of a separated file.

 include fastcgi.conf;

This file is located at /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf and it looks like:

fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
...
fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;

nginx includes two possible parameter files: fastcgi_params and fastcgi.conf. The difference between both is the definition of variable SCRIPT_FILENAME:

$ diff fastcgi_params fastcgi.conf 
1a2
> fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

To make a long story short, fastcgi.conf should always work. If for some reason you're set up is using fastcgi_params, you should define SCRIPT_FILENAME:

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

  # With php-fpm (or other unix sockets):
  fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;

  fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}

Now reload nginx configuration:

$ sudo nginx -s reload

And check a php file is displayed correctly. For instance:

/var/www/html/test.php

<pre><?php var_export($_SERVER)?></pre>

Where /var/www/html is the path to the document root.

If despite all that, you're still seeing a blank file, make sure your php.ini has short_open_tag enabled (if you're testing a PHP page with short tags).

Make sure you've got this in /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;

Who knows why this isn't there already? The amount of time this must collectively waste!

nginx showing blank PHP pages

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