Install Laravel with nginx in Subdirectory - php

Question

I try to enable PHP for only one subdirectory (the laravel directory) but I didn't manage to get this working. NGINX is always saying 404 File not found or php says "no input file specifed". What am I doing wrong?
This is my location config:
location /laravel {
root html/laravel/public;
index index.php index.html index.html;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
location ~ \.php$ {
root html/laravel/public;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
#include fastcgi_params;
include fastcgi.conf;
}
}
UDPATE 1: It seems that nginx does not properly evaluate my location expressions:
2018/09/12 16:30:44 [error] 26476#24408: *1 CreateFile() "C:/Server/nginx/html/index.php" failed (2: The system cannot find the file specified), client: 127.0.0.1, server: localhost, request: "GET /laravel/ HTTP/1.1", host: "localhost"
This is the wrong path and at least the root of the / location:
location / {
root C:/Server/nginx/html;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
}
I tried to move the block but nothing changes.
UPDATE 2:
It seems that nginx is very buggy. The documentation states:
Checks the existence of files in the specified order and uses the first found file for request processing; the processing is performed in the current context. The path to a file is constructed from the file parameter according to the root and alias directives. It is possible to check directory’s existence by specifying a slash at the end of a name, e.g. “$uri/”. If none of the files were found, an internal redirect to the uri specified in the last parameter is made.
As my error log shows, The try_files directive does not respect the root path because it trys to open the file relative to another location block.

Answer 1

As #Richard pointed out in the linked Stackoverflow Thread, this seems to be a bug of nginx. For me this solution works with nginx:
location /laravel {
alias html/laravel/public;
index index.php index.html index.html;
try_files $uri $uri/ #nested;
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
#fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
include fastcgi.conf;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
#include fastcgi_params;
}
}
location #nested {
rewrite /laravel/(.*)$ /laravel/index.php?/$1 last;
}
Source: https://serversforhackers.com/c/nginx-php-in-subdirectory

Answer 2

may be some changes and updates you need to apply:
If you want to put your laravel project in a subfolder on a server with ngnix-ubuntu 16-php.7.2, so here is update ngnix config :
1) your nested(subfolder) isn't inside your main folder
/var/www/main:
/var/www/nested:
then your config :
location /nested {
alias /var/www/nested/public;
try_files $uri $uri/ #nested;
location ~ \.php$ {
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
}
}
location #nested {
rewrite /nested/(.*)$ /nested/index.php?/$1 last;
}
2) your laravel-test folder (subfolder) inside your main :
/var/www/main:
/var/www/main/nested:
then your config :
location /laravel-test {
alias /var/www/main/laravel-test/public;
try_files $uri $uri/ #laravelTest;
location ~ \.php$ {
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
}
}
location #laravelTest {
rewrite /laravel-test/(.*)$ /laravel-test/index.php?/$1 last;
}