Nginx parse .html file to php

If your html file has php include. And you dont want to change the file type to php. Just want to make Nginx to treat html file as php file. you can follow this

Create index.html file

html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="renderer" content="webkit">
    <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
</head>
<body>
<?php echo "This is PHP Code"; ?>
</body>
</html>

Create a test site use PWS. Choose a php version. like php8.3. Add this to php-fpm.conf [www] block.

security.limit_extensions = .php .php3 .php4 .php5 .php7 .html .htm

Add this to site's Nginx vhost file. you should change 'phpwebstudy-php-cgi-83.sock' to you choosed php version

location ~ [^/]\.html(/|$)
{
	try_files $uri =404;
    fastcgi_pass  unix:/tmp/phpwebstudy-php-cgi-83.sock;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    include fastcgi.conf;
	include pathinfo.conf;
}

Start Nginx and PHP. Open the website in the browser and view the results

Nginx parse .html file to php ​

Nginx parse .html file to php