How to serve two laravel apps on 1 domain? - php

Question

I have two laravel apps like this:
- apps
- dashboard
- website
I'm trying to serve them on linux machine, I can't seem to get them to work together.
I want to have two urls like this:
https://test.example.co
https://test.example.co/dashboard
server {
server_name test.example.co;
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
location = / {
root /var/www/example/apps/website;
try_files $uri $uri/ /public/index.php;
}
location ~ ^/dashboard {
root /var/www/example/apps;
try_files $uri $uri/ /dashboard/public/index.php;
#try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
listen [::]:443 ssl ipv6only=on; # managed by Certbot
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/test.example.co/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/test.example.co/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on /var/run/php7.4-fpm.sock
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri /index.php =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
server {
if ($host = test.example.co) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
}

Answer 1

can you tell me what is the result if you write your code like this:
location ~ ^/dashboard {
root /var/www/example/apps/dashboard/public;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
}
location = ~ ^/ {
root /var/www/example/apps/website/public;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
}
I just swap it. so it will search for the dashboard and if the user is not in dashboard, it will check the root.

Answer 2

I succeeded serving them using another subdomain, the "/dashboard" idea didn't work.
I hope someone can suggest the correct way to do it, I would change the accepted answer.
I have now example.com and admin.example.com.
Nginx config as below:
server {
server_name example.com;
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
root /var/www/example/apps/website/public;
access_log /var/log/nginx/example_access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/example_error.log;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
listen [::]:443 ssl ipv6only=on; # managed by Certbot
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on /var/run/php7.4-fpm.sock
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri /index.php =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
server {
if ($host = example.com) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
server_name example.com;
return 404; # managed by Certbot
}
And the second one is:
server {
server_name admin.example.com;
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
root /var/www/example/apps/dashboard/public;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
access_log /var/log/nginx/example_access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/example_error.log;
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on /var/run/php7.4-fpm.sock
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri /index.php =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/admin.example.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/admin.example.com/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
}
server {
if ($host = admin.example.com) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
listen 80;
return 404; # managed by Certbot
}