I have the following location blocks:

location ^~ /publish {
allow 127.0.0.1;

#Allow home
allow 99.100.101.102;

deny all;
}

Then the following location block to process PHP after:

location ~\.php {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
}

The problem is that a request to /publish/execute.php is only hitting the first location block, and not hitting the fastcgi PHP execution location block. How can I make the publish location block also check for PHP files and if so, execute them according to the second location block?

Thanks.