OK with this configuration:

location ~ \.php$ {
root /home/ubuntu/htdocs/public_html;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
$document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}

and the following folder structure

$ ls ~/htdocs/
build.xml classes controllers etc includes index.html lib
public_html views
$ ls ~/htdocs/public_html/
addAttendee.php checkUser.php fileService.php
logout.php upcomingEvents.php
addDeleteFriend.php css findUsers.php
phpinfo.php users.php
addEvent.php deleteAttendee.php friends.php
postedEvents.php xsl
addEventResult.php deleteCommentsRating.php getAppConfig.php
rateit.php yourUpcomingEvents.php
addPerson.php deleteEvent.php images
rejectInvite.php
addPersonResult.php events.php index.php
requestCityState.php
approveFriendship.php favicon.ico js
revokeInvite.php
calendar.php feedFromDB.php login.php
taggedEvents.php
$ ls ~/htdocs/public_html/js/
controls.js dragdrop.js effects.js httpobject.js prototype.js
starrating.js validateform.js



when I open "localhost/index.php", I can see the php page, however, in the
logs/error.log I see these

2020/03/16 21:34:22 [error] 5821#0: *2 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP
message: PHP Warning: session_start() [<a
href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]:
open(/tmp/http_sessions/sess_dd0e14b5b3f5aebcb53015b6bebc3bfa, O_RDWR)
failed: No such file or directory (2) in
/home/ubuntu/htdocs/public_html/index.php on line 26

Also I see somethings like

2020/03/16 21:34:22 [error] 5821#0: *2 open()
"/home/ubuntu/htdocs/js/dragdrop.js" failed (2: No such file or directory),
client: 127.0.0.1, server: localhost, request: "GET /js/dragdrop.js
HTTP/1.1", host: "localhost", referrer: "http://localhost/index.php"


I don't know why it is using "/home/ubuntu/htdocs/js/dragdrop.js"?
According to the setting, it should look for it at
"/home/ubuntu/htdocs/public_html/js/dragdrop.js" where the file actually
exists.

I know that is not directly related to nginx, but I appreciate any feedback.


Regards,
Mahmood
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