Preventing NGINX from serving .php files

You can't make Nginx return a 403 for those files.

Instead, you can use a second symlink app to serve those PHP files via Apache.

For example, if you have some PHP file at /home/zlapper/webapps/wp/wp-content/uploads/someplugin/whatever.php you can do this:

1. Create a new symlink app, using 'Symbolic link to static/cgi/php app' as the app type and "/home/zlapper/webapps/wp/wp-content/uploads/someplugin" as the symlink path
2. Add that app to your site with "/wp-content/uploads/someplugin" as the URL path.

That way, requests for http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/uploads/someplugin/whatever.php will be served by Apache and have the PHP processed normally, so Nginx won't serve the PHP as a static file.

Hope that helps!