Setting up Laravel with Nginx - php

Question

I'm attempting to set up the Laravel PHP Framework to work with Nginx. Here is my directory structure:
/project
/application
/laravel
/public
index.php
/legacy
/index.php
/stylesheets
default.css
Basically what I have is a standard Laravel download w/ a legacy folder thrown in which holds all of the files from my non-MVC project.
I need Nginx to first check if the requested page/file exists inside of legacy, if it does then I want to use that. Otherwise, I want to fall back to Laravel's index.php file which is located in project/public/.
I'm no expert when it comes to Nginx configurations so any help that you can provide would be most appreciated.

Answer 1

server {
server_name .laravel.dev;
root /home/tamer/code/laravel/public;
index index.php index.html;
#browse folders if no index file
autoindex on;
# serve static files directly
location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html)$ {
access_log off;
expires max;
}
# removes trailing slashes (prevents SEO duplicate content issues)
if (!-d $request_filename)
{
rewrite ^/(.+)/$ /$1 permanent;
}
# enforce NO www
if ($host ~* ^www\.(.*))
{
set $host_without_www $1;
rewrite ^/(.*)$ $scheme://$host_without_www/$1 permanent;
}
# canonicalize codeigniter url end points
# if your default controller is something other than "welcome" you should change the following
if ($request_uri ~* ^(/lobby(/index)?|/index(.php)?)/?$)
{
rewrite ^(.*)$ / permanent;
}
# removes trailing "index" from all controllers
if ($request_uri ~* index/?$)
{
rewrite ^/(.*)/index/?$ /$1 permanent;
}
# unless the request is for a valid file (image, js, css, etc.), send to bootstrap
if (!-e $request_filename)
{
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 last;
break;
}
# catch all
error_page 404 /index.php;
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php.socket;
fastcgi_index index.php;
#include fastcgi_params;
include /home/tamer/code/nginx/fastcgi_params;
}
access_log /home/tamer/code/laravel/storage/logs.access.log;
error_log /home/tamer/code/laravel/storage/logs.error.log;
}