Php files are not loaded but rather DOWNloaded on Nginx

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Nextcloud version (eg, 12.0.2):
Operating system and version (eg, Ubuntu 17.04):
Apache or nginx version (eg, Apache 2.4.25):
PHP version (eg, 7.1):

The issue you are facing:

Index page does not, it tries to download.

Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N): Yes

Steps to replicate it:

  1. Copy the config from then new installation guide to nginx
  2. Go to the website

The output of your Nextcloud log in Admin > Logging:
Don;t have access to website

The output of your config.php file in /path/to/nextcloud (make sure you remove any identifiable information!):

<?php
$CONFIG = array (
  'instanceid' => '????',
  'passwordsalt' => '????',
  'secret' => '????,
  'trusted_domains' => 
  array (
   ? => '???',
  ),
  'datadirectory' => '/??/??',
  'dbtype' => 'mysql',
  'version' => '17.0.0.9',
  'overwrite.cli.url' => '???',
  'dbname' => '???',
  'dbhost' => '????',
  'dbport' => '',
  'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
  'mysql.utf8mb4' => true,
  'dbuser' => '????',
  'dbpassword' => '???',
  'installed' => true,
);

The output of your Apache/nginx/system log in /var/log/____:

172.104.242.173 - - [02/Nov/2019:19:01:30 -0400] "9\xCD\xC3V\x8C&\x12Dz/\xB7\xC0t\x96C\xE2" 400 157 "-" "-"
80.82.77.139 - - [02/Nov/2019:19:51:45 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 156 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.137 Safari/537.36"
80.82.77.139 - - [02/Nov/2019:19:51:46 -0400] "GET /index.php HTTP/1.1" 200 3172 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.137 Safari/537.36"
80.82.77.139 - - [02/Nov/2019:19:51:51 -0400] "" 400 0 "-" "-"
80.82.77.139 - - [02/Nov/2019:19:51:53 -0400] "" 400 0 "-" "-"
80.82.77.139 - - [02/Nov/2019:19:51:53 -0400] "" 400 0 "-" "-"
80.82.77.139 - - [02/Nov/2019:19:51:54 -0400] "" 400 0 "-" "-"
80.82.77.139 - - [02/Nov/2019:19:51:59 -0400] "GET /sitemap.xml HTTP/1.1" 404 153 "-" "-"
80.82.77.139 - - [02/Nov/2019:19:52:00 -0400] "GET /.well-known/security.txt HTTP/1.1" 404 153 "-" "-"
80.82.77.139 - - [02/Nov/2019:19:52:02 -0400] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 153 "-" "python-requests/2.13.0"