[nginx] NGINX - No input file specified. - php Fast/CGI

Hi I need help in setting config for nginx. I am new to NGINX and facing some issues.

In my sites-available there is default file

It contain below code

server {
    server_name www.test.com test.com;
    access_log /sites/test/logs/access.log;
    error_log /sites/test/logs/error.log;
    root /sites/test;

 location ~ / {

index index.php
    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}

Above code works perfectly when I write URL

www.test.com/service/public/

when I write

www.test.com/service/public/testservice (testservice is folder within public) it says No input file specified.

How to fix it. thanks in advance.

I tried below, but no luck

http://nginxlibrary.com/resolving-no-input-file-specified-error/
http://blog.martinfjordvald.com/2011/01/no-input-file-specified-with-php-and-nginx/

I had the same Error and my Problem was, that I had my php-file in my encrypted home-directory. And I run my fpm with the www-data user and this user can't read the php-files even if the permissions on the file were right. The solutioin was that I run fpm with the user who owns the home-directory. This can be changed in folowing file:

/etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf

hope this will help you :)

If someone is still having trouble with it ... I solved it by correcting it this way:

Inside the site conf file (example: /etc/nginx/conf.d/SITEEXAMPLE.conf) I have the following line:

fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /usr/share/nginx/html$fastcgi_script_name;

The error occurs because my site is NOT in the "/usr/share/nginx/html" folder but in the folder: /var/www/html/SITE/

So, change that part, leaving the code as below. Note: For those who use the site standard in /var/www/html/YOUR_SITE/

fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /var/www/html/YOUR_SITE/$fastcgi_script_name;

I tried all the options mentioned above, but found finally the solution. On my server the .php file was set to be readable by everyone, but it worked when I set the php-fpm to run under same user as nginx. I changed it in /etc/php/7.2/fpm/pool.d/www.conf and in the configuration file I set

user = nginx group = nginx

and then reloaded the php-fpm process Hope this helps

For localhost - I forgot to write in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost

Also removed proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1; from other server in ngnix.conf

I solved it by replacing

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

$document_root with C:\MyWebSite\www\

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME C:\MyWebSite\www\$fastcgi_script_name;

Simply restarting my php-fpm solved the issue. As i understand it's mostly a php-fpm issue than nginx.

I tried all the settings above but this fixed my problem. You have to define nginx to check if the php file actually exists in that location. I found try_files $uri = 404; solving that problem.

location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files  $uri =404;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock; 
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
}

This is likely because with the trailing slash, NGinx tries to find the default index file which is probably index.html without configuration. Without the trailing slash it tries to match the file testservice which he can't find. Either this and/or you don't have any default index file in the testservice folder.

Try adding this line to your server configuration :

index  index.php index.html index.htm; // Or in the correct priority order for you

Hope this helps!

Edit

My answer is not very clear, see this example to understand what I mean

listen 80;

    server_name glo4000.mydomain.com www.glo4000.mydomain.com;


    access_log  /var/log/nginx/glo-4000.access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/glo-4000.error_log;

    location / {
        root   /home/ul/glo-4000/;
        index  index.php index.html index.htm;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {

        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass   unix:/tmp/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/ul/glo-4000/$fastcgi_script_name;
    }
}

This answers did not help me, my php adminer showed me "No input file specified" error anyway. But I knew I changed php-version before. So, I found the reason: it is not nginx, it is php.ini doc_root parameter! I found

doc_root =

in php.ini and changed it to

;doc_root =

After this patch my adminer work good.

Same problem.

Reason old open_basedir settings copied with a rogue user.ini file in a backup

Solution delete it

server {
    server_name www.test.com test.com;
    access_log /sites/test/logs/access.log;
    error_log /sites/test/logs/error.log;
    root /sites/test;

 location ~ / {

index index.php
    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME `$document_root/service/public$fastcgi_script_name`;
}

You must add "include fastcgi.conf" in

location ~ \.$php{
  #......
  include fastcgi.conf;
}

use in windows

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

wasn't putting -b

php-cgi.exe -b 127.0.0.1:9000

My case: SELinux was enabled and denying php-fpm from executing my scripts.

Diagnosis: Temporarilly disable SELinux and see if the problem goes away.

$ sudo setenforce permissive
### see if PHP scripts work ###
$ sudo setenforce enforcing

Solution: Put the PHP directory in the httpd_sys_content_t context. You can use chcon or make the change persistent via semanage:

$ sudo semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/srv/myapp(/.*)?"
$ sudo restorecon -R -F /srv/myapp

You can use the context httpd_sys_rw_content_t where write permissions are needed.

Resolving "No input file specified" error

If you are using nginx with php-cgi and have followed the standard procedure to set it up, you might often get the “No input file specified” error. This error basically occurs when the php-cgi daemon cannot find a .php file to execute using the SCRIPT_FILENAME parameter that was supplied to it. I’ll discuss about the common causes of the error and it’s solutions. Wrong path is sent to the php-cgi daemon

More often than not, a wrong path (SCRIPT_FILENAME) is sent to the fastCGI daemon. In many of the cases, this is due to a misconfiguration. Some of the setups I have seen are configured like this :

server {
    listen   [::]:80;
    server_name  example.com www.example.com;
    access_log  /var/www/logs/example.com.access.log;  

    location / {
        root   /var/www/example.com;
        index  index.html index.htm index.pl;
    }

    location /images {
        autoindex on;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /var/www/example.com$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

Now, there are many things wrong with this configuration. An obvious and glaring issue is the root directive in the location / block. When the root is defined inside the location block, it is available/defined for that block only. Here, the location /images block will not match for any request because it does not have any $document _root defined and we will have to redundantly define root again for it. Obviously, the root directive should be moved out of the location / block and defined in the server block. This way, the location blocks will inherit the value defined in the parental server block. Of course, if you want to define a different $document_root for a location, you can put a root directive in a location block.

Another issue is that the value of the fastCGI parameter SCRIPT_FILENAME is hard-coded. If we change the value of the root directive and move our files somewhere else in the directory chain, php-cgi will return a “No input file specified” error because will not be able to find the file in the hard-coded location which didn’t change when the $document_root was changed. So, we should set SCRIPT_FILENAME as below :

fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

We should keep in mind that the root directive should be in the server block or else, only the $fastcgi_script_name will get passed as the SCRIPT_FILENAME and we will get the “No input file specified” error.

source(Resolving "No input file specified" error)

Alright I'm a noob but just to share what I encountered.

I set up Laravel Forge with Linode to run a static website from my github repo.

SSH into my Linode and verified that my html was updated however, upon visiting the public ip of my linode I saw the error msg 'No input file specified.

Went to Nginx configuration file in my forge and deleted the word 'public' so now its

root /home/forge/default;

restarted nginx server within forge and deployed again and now it can be accessed.

Same problem.

Cause : My root wasn't specified in open_basedir.
Fix : Adding my site root directory in :

/etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/mysite.conf<br>

by adding this directive :

php_value[open_basedir] = /my/root/site/dir:/other/directory/allowed

Okay, I assume you using php7.2 (or higher) on Ubuntu 16 or higher

if none of this worked, you must know nginx-fastCGI uses different pid and .sock for different sites hosted on the same server.

To troubleshoot 'No input file specified' problem, you must tell the nginx yoursite.conf file which one of the sock file to use.

1. Uncomment the default fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php7.2-fpm.sock Make sure you have the following directives in place on the conf file,

   location / {
       try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
   }
   location ~ \.php$ {
           try_files $uri /index.php =404;
           #fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php7.2-fpm.sock;
           fastcgi_pass unix:/var/php-nginx/158521651519246.sock/socket;
           fastcgi_index index.php;
           fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
           include fastcgi_params;
   }
   

2. have a look at the list of sock and pid files using ls -la /var/php-nginx/(if you have recently added the file, it should be the last one on the list)

3.copy the filename of the .sock file (usually a 15 digit number) and paste it to your location ~ \.php directive

fastcgi_pass unix:/var/php-nginx/{15digitNumber}.sock/socket;

and restart nginx. Let me know if it worked.