Nginx: Serve multiple Laravel apps with same url but two different sub locations in Linux
During one of the deployment on linux server, I came across some sort of your challenge. It was as follow
-
<base_url>
: One Laravel project needs to served on this. -
<base_url>/<sub_url>
: Another Laravel project needs to be served on this.
Of course this can be extended to any number of Laravel projects which follows <base_url>/<unique_sub_url>
concept.
Now let's dive into actual implementation
# Nginx.conf
# App 1(Path: /var/www/html/app1, Url: http://www.mywebsite.com)
# App 2(Path: /var/www/html/app2, Url: http://www.mywebsite.com/app2)
server {
# Listing port and host address
# If 443, make sure to include ssl configuration for the same.
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name www.mywebsite.com;
# Default index pages
index index.php;
# Root for / project
root /var/www/html/app1/public;
# Handle main root / project
location / {
#deny all;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
# Handle app2 project, just replicate this section for further projects app3, app4
# by just replacing app2 with appropriate tag(app3/app4)
location /app2 {
# Root for this project
root /var/www/html/app2/public;
# Rewrite $uri=/app2/xyz back to just $uri=/xyz
rewrite ^/app2/(.*)$ /$1 break;
# Try to send static file at $url or $uri/
# Else try /index.php (which will hit location ~\.php$ below)
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
# Handle all locations *.php files (which will always be just /index.php)
# via factcgi PHP-FPM unix socket
location ~ \.php$ {
# At this point, $uri is /index.php, $args=any GET ?key=value and $request_uri = /app2/xyz.
# But we don't want to pass /app2/xyz to PHP-FPM, we want just /xyz to pass to fastcgi REQUESTE_URI below.
# This allows laravel to see /app2/xyz as just /xyz in its router.
# So laravel route('/xyz') responds to /app2/xyz as you would expect.
set $newurl $request_uri;
if ($newurl ~ ^/app2(.*)$) {
set $newurl $1;
root /var/www/html/app2/public;
}
# Pass all PHP files to fastcgi php fpm unix socket
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
# Use php fpm sock which is installed on your machine like php7.2, php5.6
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
# Here we are telling php fpm to use updated route that we've created to properly
# response to laravel routes.
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $newurl;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
fastcgi_buffer_size 16k;
fastcgi_buffers 4 16k;
}
# Deny .ht* access
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
Note: When we're using session based laravel setup, all the route generator functions(url(), route()
) use hostname www.mywebsite.com
as root url, not www.mywebsite.com/app2
. To resolve this issue please do following changes in laravel app.
- Define
APP_URL
in.env
file asAPP_URL="www.mywebsite.com/app2"
- Go to
RouteServiceProvider
which is located atapp/Providers/RouteServiceProvider
and force laravel to use APP_URL as root url for your app.
public function boot()
{
parent::boot();
// Add following lines to force laravel to use APP_URL as root url for the app.
$strBaseURL = $this->app['url'];
$strBaseURL->forceRootUrl(config('app.url'));
}
Update: Make sure to run php artisan config:clear
or php artisan config:cache
command to load the updated value of APP_URL
.
For windows: Multiple Laravel Applications Using Nginx - Windows