PHP-FPM is only for PHP. You'll want something like fcgiwrap for regular
CGI files.

See https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/examples/fcgiwrap/

On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 6:02 PM, Ralph Seichter <m16+nginx@monksofcool.net>
wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> I am fairly new to nginx and now have stumbled across an issue I can't
> solve. I have successfully configured nginx on Gentoo Linux to run PHP
> applications (e.g. phpBB and phpMyAdmin) with php-fpm.
>
> As far as I understand, php-fpm should also be able to execute "regular
> CGI" in the form of Shell-Scripts or Perl, as long as the files are
> executable and use shebang-notation to indicate what interpreter they
> want to be run with?
>
> In my test installation CGI scripts are never executed by php-fpm. File
> contents are simply piped to the web browser, and I can't figure out
> why. I searched the Net and mailing list archives, but did not find a
> solution, so I thought it best to ask here.
>
> Output of nginx -V, configuration dump and test.cgi are attached. Your
> help is appreciated.
>
> -Ralph
>
>
> nginx version: nginx/1.13.11
> built with OpenSSL 1.0.2n 7 Dec 2017
> TLS SNI support enabled
> configure arguments: --prefix=/usr --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
> --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error_log --pid-path=/run/nginx.pid
> --lock-path=/run/lock/nginx.lock --with-cc-opt=-I/usr/include
> --with-ld-opt=-L/usr/lib64 --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access_log
> --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/client
> --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/proxy
> --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/fastcgi
> --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/scgi
> --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/uwsgi --with-compat
> --with-http_v2_module --with-pcre --with-pcre-jit
> --with-http_addition_module
> --with-http_dav_module --with-http_perl_module --with-http_realip_module
> --add-module=external_module/headers-more-nginx-module-0.33
> --add-module=external_module/ngx-fancyindex-0.4.2
> --add-module=external_module/ngx_http_auth_pam_module-1.5.1
> --add-module=external_module/nginx-dav-ext-module-0.1.0
> --add-module=external_module/echo-nginx-module-0.61
> --add-module=external_module/nginx-auth-ldap-
> 42d195d7a7575ebab1c369ad3fc5d78dc2c2669c
> --add-module=external_module/nginx-module-vts-0.1.15-gentoo
> --with-http_ssl_module --without-stream_access_module
> --without-stream_geo_module --without-stream_limit_conn_module
> --without-stream_map_module --without-stream_return_module
> --without-stream_split_clients_module --without-stream_upstream_
> hash_module
> --without-stream_upstream_least_conn_module
> --without-stream_upstream_zone_module --without-mail_pop3_module
> --with-mail
> --with-mail_ssl_module --user=nginx --group=nginx
>
> # configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:
>
> user nginx nginx;
> worker_processes 1;
>
> error_log /var/log/nginx/error_log info;
>
> events {
> worker_connections 1024;
> use epoll;
> }
>
> http {
> include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
> default_type application/octet-stream;
>
> log_format main
> '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] '
> '"$request" $status $bytes_sent '
> '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" '
> '"$gzip_ratio"';
>
> client_header_timeout 10m;
> client_body_timeout 10m;
> send_timeout 10m;
>
> connection_pool_size 256;
> client_header_buffer_size 1k;
> large_client_header_buffers 4 2k;
> request_pool_size 4k;
>
> gzip off;
>
> output_buffers 1 32k;
> postpone_output 1460;
>
> sendfile on;
> tcp_nopush on;
> tcp_nodelay on;
>
> keepalive_timeout 75 20;
>
> ignore_invalid_headers on;
>
> index index.html;
>
> server {
> listen *:8080 default_server;
> access_log /var/log/nginx/access_log main;
> error_log /var/log/nginx/error_log info;
>
> server_name _;
> root /var/www/localhost/htdocs;
>
> # Alternative: temp redirect to HTTPS
> #return 302 https://$host$request_uri;
> }
>
> include local/*.conf;
> }
>
> # configuration file /etc/nginx/local/20-test.conf:
>
> server {
> listen *:8443 ssl default_server;
> server_name test.mydomain.tld;
> access_log /var/log/nginx/ssl_access_log main;
> error_log /var/log/nginx/ssl_error_log debug;
>
> ssl on;
> ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/mydomain/cert.pem;
> ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/mydomain/key.pem;
>
> root /var/www/localhost/test;
> index test.cgi;
>
> location ~ \.cgi$ {
> # Test for non-existent scripts or throw a 404 error
> try_files $uri =404;
>
> include fastcgi_params;
> fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
> fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php7-fpm.sock;
> }
> }
>
> # configuration file /etc/nginx/mime.types:
>
> types {
> text/html html htm shtml;
> text/css css;
> text/xml xml;
> image/gif gif;
> image/jpeg jpeg jpg;
> application/javascript js;
> application/atom+xml atom;
> application/rss+xml rss;
>
> text/mathml mml;
> text/plain txt;
> text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor jad;
> text/vnd.wap.wml wml;
> text/x-component htc;
>
> image/png png;
> image/svg+xml svg svgz;
> image/tiff tif tiff;
> image/vnd.wap.wbmp wbmp;
> image/webp webp;
> image/x-icon ico;
> image/x-jng jng;
> image/x-ms-bmp bmp;
>
> application/font-woff woff;
> application/java-archive jar war ear;
> application/json json;
> application/mac-binhex40 hqx;
> application/msword doc;
> application/pdf pdf;
> application/postscript ps eps ai;
> application/rtf rtf;
> application/vnd.apple.mpegurl m3u8;
> application/vnd.google-earth.kml+xml kml;
> application/vnd.google-earth.kmz kmz;
> application/vnd.ms-excel xls;
> application/vnd.ms-fontobject eot;
> application/vnd.ms-powerpoint ppt;
> application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics odg;
> application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation odp;
> application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet ods;
> application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text odt;
>
> application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
> pptx;
> application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
> xlsx;
> application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.
> wordprocessingml.document
> docx;
> application/vnd.wap.wmlc wmlc;
> application/x-7z-compressed 7z;
> application/x-cocoa cco;
> application/x-java-archive-diff jardiff;
> application/x-java-jnlp-file jnlp;
> application/x-makeself run;
> application/x-perl pl pm;
> application/x-pilot prc pdb;
> application/x-rar-compressed rar;
> application/x-redhat-package-manager rpm;
> application/x-sea sea;
> application/x-shockwave-flash swf;
> application/x-stuffit sit;
> application/x-tcl tcl tk;
> application/x-x509-ca-cert der pem crt;
> application/x-xpinstall xpi;
> application/xhtml+xml xhtml;
> application/xspf+xml xspf;
> application/zip zip;
>
> application/octet-stream bin exe dll;
> application/octet-stream deb;
> application/octet-stream dmg;
> application/octet-stream iso img;
> application/octet-stream msi msp msm;
>
> audio/midi mid midi kar;
> audio/mpeg mp3;
> audio/ogg ogg;
> audio/x-m4a m4a;
> audio/x-realaudio ra;
>
> video/3gpp 3gpp 3gp;
> video/mp2t ts;
> video/mp4 mp4;
> video/mpeg mpeg mpg;
> video/quicktime mov;
> video/webm webm;
> video/x-flv flv;
> video/x-m4v m4v;
> video/x-mng mng;
> video/x-ms-asf asx asf;
> video/x-ms-wmv wmv;
> video/x-msvideo avi;
> }
>
> # configuration file /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params:
>
> fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
> fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
> fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
> fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
>
> fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
> fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri;
> fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri;
> fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root;
> fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;
> fastcgi_param REQUEST_SCHEME $scheme;
> fastcgi_param HTTPS $https if_not_empty;
>
> fastcgi_param GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1;
> fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx/$nginx_version;
>
> fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr;
> fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT $remote_port;
> fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr;
> fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port;
> fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name;
>
> # PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
> fastcgi_param REDIRECT_STATUS 200;
>
> # httpoxy mitigation (https://httpoxy.org/
> https://www.nginx.com/blog/?p=41962)
> fastcgi_param HTTP_PROXY "";
>
>
> $ cat /var/www/localhost/test/test.cgi
> #!/bin/sh
> echo '<html><body>Hello world.</body></html>'
>
> $ ls -l /var/www/localhost/test/test.cgi
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 67 Apr 6 17:24 /var/www/localhost/test/test.cgi*
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