Nginx alias with laravel4 - php

Question

My nginx configuration for laravel
server {
listen 80;
server_name app.dev;
rewrite_log on;
root /var/www/l4/angular;
index index.html;
location /{
# URLs to attempt, including pretty ones.
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location /lara/ {
index index.php;
alias /var/www/l4/public/;
}
# Remove trailing slash to please routing system.
if (!-d $request_filename) {
rewrite ^/(.+)/$ /$1 permanent;
}
location ~ ^/lara/(.*\.php)$ {
alias /var/www/l4/public/$1;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
Laravel route:
Route::get('/', function()
{
return View::make('index');
});
Route::get('x', function()
{
return "alpha";
});
my problem is,"http://app.dev/lara/index.php" is working but "http://app.dev/lara" and lara/x is not working.

Answer 1

In a nutshell, make the following edits. An explanation of why is below.
Replace
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
with
try_files $uri $uri/ /lara/index.php?$query_string;
Replace the last location directive with this
location ~ /lara/(.*)$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME "/var/www/l4/public/index.php";
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI /$1;
}
Restart nginx.
Now the why. I spotted a couple of mistakes with your nginx config. First, /index.php?$query_string in the try_files directive should be /lara/index.php?$query_string, otherwise nginx will try a request like http://app.dev/lara as /var/www/l4/angular/index.php?, which leads no where (unless you have an index.php there, and even is it will be served as text, not through fpm).
The second has to do with the location ~ ^/lara/(.*\.php)$ directive. I think restricting it to URIs that end with .php is wrong, because it won't work for http://app.dev/lara/x, which will make nginx only search for /var/www/l4/public/x, returning 404 of course. Changing the regex to ^/lara/(.*)$ should do the job of catching /lara/x. Now the fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; directive is erroneous because for http://app.dev/lara/x, SCRIPT_FILENAME is /var/www/l4/public/x/lara/x, and removing the $1 in the alias directive won't make it any better. Instead, make the fastcgi_param like this fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME "/var/www/l4/public/index.php";, remove the alias directive, it's useless now, then move include fastcgi_params; above the fastcgi_param so it won't override SCRIPT_FILENAME value.
Done? Not yet :). Trying /lara/x will show a Laravel routing error, because it tries to find the route lara/x instead of x, this is because you're including fastcgi_params. Just add fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI /$1; after SCRIPT_FILENAME param directive. Now it should be working fine. Don't forget to restart nginx :).