No input file specified on nginx and php-cgi

Question

I'm trying to run nginx and php-cgi on my Windows PC, I've got up to the point where I want to move the html directory back two directory's so I can sort of create a structure.

The only problem I have now is that PHP doesn't pick up any .php file. I have tried loading a static html file (localhost/test.html) and it works fine but localhost/info.php doesn't work at all.

Can anyone give me some guidance on this? The part of the server block can be found below.

server { listen 80; server_name localhost; root ../../www; index index.html index.htm index.php; #charset koi8-r; #access_log logs/host.access.log main; location ~ \.php$ { fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9123; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; } 

Answer 1

Don't use a relative path in the root directive. Use the absolute path.

Answer 2

php-cgi on Windows has a bug concerning relative paths apparently:

[PHP-BUG] Bug #54955 [NEW]: FastCGI doesn't recognize Windows relative paths

Your solutions are:

1. Absolute paths like what Michael Hampton said.
2. Junctions.

Answer 3

If you are using an NGINX stack on a local machine for development, there might be a preconfigured setting that is playing Gotcha:

open_basedir = "c:/webserver.;c:/” 

Here is where I discovered the error on Windows with WinNMP:

Today I wanted to try out Nginx server my windows machine. After setting up the basic server block details for my project, I called the site URL. In the WT-NMP stack to quickly setup the software I needed. In the server block, I needed to specify my root path in a different location other than WWW.

Then when I hit the URL, I was getting “No Input File Specified” for my PHP script.

Now I’m not much of a reader so I just goggled here and there and didn’t found much of a fix. So then I reviewed the php log files. There I got the error message as my project folder path is not within the allowed path(s): (c:/wt-nmp)

So basically I had to edit php.init open_basedir value to include the path I stored my project. However here I could see that even the driver is considered to be as a path. So I ended up placing the driver letter since if I want to store more websites in my ‘d’ drive, I would not encounter this error. This is the final line. I have bold my text to indicate the change I made.

open_basedir = “c:/wt-nmp.;d:/”

“Happy Nginx, is a good Nginx.”