Nginx Server Blocks configuration to run more than one Laravel 5.1 web-app off of a single Linux server
- PHP package: php5-fpm php5-mcrypt php5-mysql
- Laravel 5.1
- Nginx 1.8
Nginx Server Blocks are located in /etc/nginx/sites-available. The filename for default block is "default".
server {
# default server specification
listen 80 default_server;
# site accessible from http://domain_or_ip
server_name domain_or_ip;
# file location
root /var/www/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
# check if a file or directory index file exists, else route it to 404 error page.
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
# error pages
error_page 404 /404.html;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}
# handle execution of PHP files
# set php5-fpm socket
# tell NGINX to proxy requests to PHP FPM via the FCGI protocol
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
Other blocks are located in same folder of default block (/etc/nginx/sites-available). Filename for each domain is domain_name.
server {
listen 80;
# site accessible from domain_name
server_name domain_name;
# file location (note the "public" folder of Laravel)
root "/var/www/domain_name/public";
index index.html index.htm index.php;
# charset of "Content-Type" response header field
charset utf-8;
# set the maximum allowed size of the client request body
#client_max_body_size 100m;
# log settings
access_log off;
error_log /var/log/nginx/domain_name-error.log error;
# turn off access logs and prevents logging
# an error if robots.txt and favicon.ico are not found
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
# check if a file or directory index file exists,
# else pass the request to the index.php as a query parameter.
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
# handle execution of PHP files
# set php5-fpm socket
# tell NGINX to proxy requests to PHP FPM via the FCGI protocol
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
fastcgi_buffer_size 16k;
fastcgi_buffers 4 16k;
fastcgi_connect_timeout 300;
fastcgi_send_timeout 300;
fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
}
# block access to .htaccess files
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
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