Problem with try files: =404 results in php files being downloaded instead of parsed by php

[Xaymar]

Hello,

I tried changing my template configuration so that it would show "404
not found" instead of "No input file specified." but to my surprise,
try_files did something completely unpredictable and now I'm stuck with
"No input file specified.". To be exact I tried changin this:
> try_files "$uri" "$uri/" "/index.php";
into this:
> try_files "$uri" "$uri/" "/index.php" =404;
which then resulted in nginx sending the php file as
application-octet-stream, instead of parsing it through the fastcgi
handler. How do I do the above right, if not with the try_files syntax?

My configurations:
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf - http://files.realitybends.de/nginx.conf
/etc/nginx/mime.types - http://files.realitybends.de/mime.types
/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf -
http://files.realitybends.de/conf.d/default.conf
/etc/nginx/conf.d/mime.types -
http://files.realitybends.de/conf.d/mime.types
/etc/nginx/inc.d/global.conf -
http://files.realitybends.de/inc.d/global.conf
/etc/nginx/inc.d/php.conf - http://files.realitybends.de/inc.d/php.conf
/etc/nginx/sites-available/realitybends.de -
http://files.realitybends.de/sites-available/realitybends.de
The corresponding line is in /etc/nginx/inc.d/global.conf:
> Line 21:                try_files "$uri" "$uri/" "/index.php";

Thanks in advance,
Xaymar

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,227833,227833#msg-227833