Setting up Laravel with Nginx

Question

I'm attempting to set up the Laravel PHP Framework to work with Nginx. Here is my directory structure:

/project
   /application
   /laravel
   /public
      index.php
   /legacy
      /index.php
      /stylesheets
         default.css

Basically what I have is a standard Laravel download w/ a legacy folder thrown in which holds all of the files from my non-MVC project.

I need Nginx to first check if the requested page/file exists inside of legacy, if it does then I want to use that. Otherwise, I want to fall back to Laravel's index.php file which is located in project/public/.

I'm no expert when it comes to Nginx configurations so any help that you can provide would be most appreciated.

This isn't Laravel but this tutorial should point you in the right direction: https://nealpoole.com/blog/2011/04/setting-up-php-fastcgi-and-nginx-dont-trust-the-tutorials-check-your-configuration/ — mikelbring, Mar 01 '12 at 01:55

score 24 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 21 '12 at 17:30

server {
    server_name .laravel.dev;
    root /home/tamer/code/laravel/public;

    index index.php index.html;

    #browse folders if no index file
        autoindex on; 

    # serve static files directly
    location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html)$ {
        access_log off;
        expires max;
    }

    # removes trailing slashes (prevents SEO duplicate content issues)
    if (!-d $request_filename)
    {
        rewrite ^/(.+)/$ /$1 permanent;
    }

    # enforce NO www
    if ($host ~* ^www\.(.*))
    {
        set $host_without_www $1;
        rewrite ^/(.*)$ $scheme://$host_without_www/$1 permanent;
    }


    # canonicalize codeigniter url end points
    # if your default controller is something other than "welcome" you should change the following
    if ($request_uri ~* ^(/lobby(/index)?|/index(.php)?)/?$)
    {
        rewrite ^(.*)$ / permanent;
    }

    # removes trailing "index" from all controllers
    if ($request_uri ~* index/?$)
    {
        rewrite ^/(.*)/index/?$ /$1 permanent;
    }

    # unless the request is for a valid file (image, js, css, etc.), send to bootstrap
    if (!-e $request_filename)
    {
        rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 last;
        break;
    }

    # catch all
    error_page 404 /index.php;

        location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
                fastcgi_pass  unix:/tmp/php.socket;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                #include fastcgi_params;
                include /home/tamer/code/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        }
        access_log /home/tamer/code/laravel/storage/logs.access.log;
        error_log  /home/tamer/code/laravel/storage/logs.error.log;
}

Setting up Laravel with Nginx

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