Try replacing /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params with the one from http://wiki.nginx.org/PHPFcgiExample http://wiki.nginx.org/PHPFcgiExample Also, the packaging is done

Try replacing /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params with the one from http://wiki.nginx.org/PHPFcgiExample http://wiki.nginx.org/PHPFcgiExample Also, the packaging is done differently by ubuntu and nginx upstream, so I don't think you can just replace it. They are also bundled with different modules. For example, I have to use the package from ubuntu because the one from nginx upstream lacks the geoip module.