Nginx - Downloading PHP instead of executing

Question

I am using CentOS and I have two web pages which im using for a piece of work. The first is a .html which has a form which uses a .php script to send data to my mySQL database,

Answer 1

You must uncomment this part:

#location ~ \.php$ {
#    root           html;
#    fastcgi_pass   unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
#    fastcgi_index  index.php;
#    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /scripts$fastcgi_script_name;
#    include        fastcgi_params;
#}

Edit the file /var/run/php5-fpm.sock and change listen = 127.0.0.1:9000 to listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock.

And to allow the server to only process the exact file path edit /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini and make sure cgi.fix_pathinfo=0.