Nginx + Laravel - Moving blog from subdomain to /blog - php

Question

My server application uses Laravel, and I have until recently had a wordpress blog hosted at blog.server.com
I wish to change this to server.com/blog
I have updated the main nginx config by adding the following:
location ^~ /blog {
root /home/ploi/blog.server.com/public;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/index.php?$query_string;
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri /index.php =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_buffers 16 16k;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
This kind of works. It loads the new /blog url and posts, but:
No static assets get loaded (js, png, css, etc)
server.com/blog/wp-admin/ loops infinitely
How can I solve this?

Answer 1

You could try this, worked for me:
location /blog {
alias /home/ploi/blog.server.com/public;
try_files $uri $uri/ #blogrewrite;
location ~ \.php$ {
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
}
}
location #blogrewrite {
rewrite /blog/(.*)$ /blog/index.php?/$1 last;
}
I used a "named location" (#blogrewrite), but frankly I don't know why this was necessary, but it avoided the recursion.