diff --git a/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf b/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
index 14291fb..8e93695 100644
--- a/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
+++ b/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ server {
     error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
 
     location / {
-         try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html =404;
+         try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php /index.html =404;
     }
 
     location ~ \.php$ {
diff --git a/var/www/index.html b/var/www/index.html
deleted file mode 100644
index 821dcf2..0000000
--- a/var/www/index.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-<!DOCTYPE html>
-<html>
-<head>
-    <title>Test Page</title>
-</head>
-<body>
-    <h1>Test Page</h1>
-</body>
-</html>
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diff --git a/var/www/index.php b/var/www/index.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0946be0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/var/www/index.php
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" 
+    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> 
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> 
+  <head> 
+    <title>Today&rsquo;s Date</title> 
+    <meta http-equiv="content-type" 
+        content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> 
+  </head> 
+  <body> 
+    <p>Today&rsquo;s date (according to this web server) is 
+      <?php 
+      echo date('l, F dS Y.'); 
+      ?> 
+    </p> 
+  </body> 
+</html>
\ No newline at end of file
