in my website users can upload their files and have a short url of that files. before this i used apache webserver but now i want to switch to nginx. in apache i used this snippet to remove php handler for some directory that files are upload to that : <Directory /var/www/unkown-user-data/uploads> RemoveHandler .php .phtml .php3 .php5 RemoveType .php .phtml .php3 .php5 php_flag engiby mahdi - Migration from Other Servers