Hi Francis,

> Answer #1: what does "does not work" mean?
When I process an URI request, it downloads the file instead of executing the PHP code.

What I try to achieve is very simple, use @php as location to execute PHP code instead of repeating it over and over in various locations. Here it is a better example of a functional setup:
http://pastie.org/private/5gkl1pti1co0onzhgb8jpg

What I try to achieve is replace the location ~ \.php$ location contents with @php ones so I only execute try_files:
http://pastie.org/private/iuz58naozk6xo92ukqmwsg

Regards,