AngularJS and Laravel config for nginx. Running php from url segment - php

Question

I have problem configuring laravel configuration that would run from /api/ segment of main domain.
Idea is to serve at subdomain.domain.com main Angular aplication and in subdomain.domain.com/api/ laravel php server configuration.
UPDATE #1
I have managed to run laravel from /api/ segment with this configuration
server {
listen 80;
server_name subdomain.domain.com;
root /var/www/subdomain.domain.com/client/monkey/dist;
access_log /var/www/subdomain.domain.com.access.log;
error_log /var/www/subdomain.domain.com.error.log;
rewrite_log on;
index index.php index.html;
location / {
root /var/www/subdomain.domain.com/client/monkey/dist;
index index.html;
if (!-e $request_filename){ # handles page reload
rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.html break;
}
}
location /api/ {
root /var/www/subdomain.domain.com/server/;
try_files $uri $uri/ /api/index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ /api/.+\.php$ {
root /var/www/subdomain.domain.com/server/;
rewrite ^/api/(.*)$ /$1 break;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param MONKEY_ENV production;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(/.*)?$;
# fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
}
}
Only problem that has left is that when i'm using subdomain.domain.com/api/segment1/segment... then I need to add in routes.php
Route::group(['prefix' => 'api'], function () {
// my routes settings
});
As laravel is starting from suddomain.domain.com/ as root path. How can i rewrite /api/ so that laravel takes /api/ as routing starting point ?

Answer 1

If I hava understanded your problem, I guess that you could solve this with the alias directive instead root. Using the root directive Nginx just takes de informed location and concat it at the end of the informed root path.
So, in your case, this conf:
location /api/ {
root /var/www/subdomain.domain.com/server/;
try_files $uri $uri/ /api/index.php$is_args$args;
}
nginx would resolved it to /var/www/subdomain.domain.com/server/api as the final path.
Using the alias directive, this conf,
location /api {
alias /var/www/subdomain.domain.com/server/;
try_files $uri $uri/ /api/index.php$is_args$args;
}
would be resolved to anything that's aim to '/api' but nginx is not concatening the 'api' string in the final path it uses.
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#alias
Hopes this helps.