WordPress deploying roots/bedrock to WPEngine

Question

Overview

I am to establish a robust WordPress Development Process utilizing the following tools:

• WPEngine
• roots/bedrock
• Github Actions

The goal is to deploy the entire site, including the WordPress core and plugins. I'm using Composer to handle this task.

Challenges

I'm currently facing two primary challenges:

1. WPEngine Directive Limitation:

   • WPEngine support informed me that they do not allow modifications to the root directive. However, they mentioned that rule rewrites or additions are permissible, citing the example of rules for the webp optimizer plugin.

2. GitHub Action Error:

   • During the GitHub Action process, I encounter an error that says:

'wp-config.php' not found.
Either create one manually or use 'wp config create'

• It's puzzling since the bedrock setup has a wp-cli.yml configuration pointing to a different path:

  path: web/wp
  server:
    docroot: web
  

GitHub Action Configuration

Here's my current GitHub Action setup:

name: Deploy to WPE Production Environment 
on:
  push:
    branches:
     - main
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest  
    steps: 
    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
    - uses: php-actions/composer@v6
    - name: Deploy to WP Engine
      uses: wpengine/github-action-wpe-site-deploy@v3
      with:
        WPE_SSHG_KEY_PRIVATE: ${{ secrets.WPE_KEY }} 
        WPE_ENV: example
        SRC_PATH: ""
        REMOTE_PATH: ""
        PHP_LINT: FALSE
        FLAGS: -azvr --inplace --delete --exclude=".*" --exclude-from=.deployignore
        CACHE_CLEAR: TRUE

Local Development Experience

For local WordPress project development, I rely on the Local by FlyWheel tool. This allows for an easy change of the root directive:

root   "{{root}}";
root   "{{root}}/web";

However, my attempt to rewrite the root directive led to a 502 error:

server {
    listen {{port}};
    root {{root}};
    
    location / {
        try_files $uri @new_root;
    }
    
    location @new_root {
        rewrite ^ /web$uri;
    }
}

Research & Possible Solutions

Though I've scoured numerous resources to alter the direction of wp-config, I haven't found a viable solution yet. I'm open to suggestions.

One thought is to potentially craft a custom deployment script to bridge WPE & Bedrock.

Additional References

• WPE Action site deploy (by an external author): Link
• WPE Action site deploy: Link
• Older deployment script from 2016 for themes: Link

Any input or assistance would be greatly appreciated.