Nginx throws 404 error for a file route in Laravel - laravel

Question

I have a simple Laravel route to provide to our users private files. We present files to users with the help of a middleware. Thus, we check whether the logged in user really has access to this file.
Everything is working as expected we on local environment. But we ran into a problem when we deployed it to the server. It does not see the Laravel route file in the Nginx location and tries to find the file in the root directory.
Laravel route example as below.
Route::get('lesson-attachment/{uuid}/{filename}', LessonAttachmentController::class)->name('lesson.attachment');
As you can see, we expect to receive a uuid and filename as url parameters. Actually the filaname parameter is required because we returns inline response on the exact url sometimes and we want to show the filename on the browser tab. Anyway, finally the codes here work fine on local machine.
But when we come to the nginx server, things get confused and when we look at the logs, we get the following error.
/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/current/public/lesson-attachment/61cd7c8b-a7a1-49f8-86b8-d82825c9f55a/sample-file.pdf" failed (2: No such file or directory)
Here is the nginx conf:
add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";
index index.php;
charset utf-8;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
error_page 404 /index.php;
The question is how can I run that url path on production server?
https://example.com/lesson-attachment/61cd7c8b-a7a1-49f8-86b8-d82825c9f55a/sample-file.pdf
For more information my development environment:
Macbook Pro
Laravel Valet
For more information our production environment:
Ubuntu 20
Nginx
Plesk Panel (core nginx configurations are provided from plesk)
Using php deployer tool for deployment to production.
UPDATE - The base server blocks of nginx configuration. Please note, it provides by Plesk.
#ATTENTION!
#
#DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE BECAUSE IT WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY,
#SO ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST THE NEXT TIME THE FILE IS GENERATED.
map $sent_http_content_type $expires {
default off;
text/html epoch;
text/css max;
application/javascript max;
~image/ max;
~font/ max;
}
server {
listen ***** ssl http2;
expires $expires;
server_name example.com;
client_max_body_size 134217728;
# mailconfig
location ~* ^/autodiscover/autodiscover\.xml$ {
try_files $uri #mad;
}
location ~* ^(/\.well-known/autoconfig)?/mail/config\-v1\.1\.xml$ {
try_files $uri #mad;
}
location ~* ^/email\.mobileconfig$ {
try_files $uri #mad;
}
location #mad {
rewrite ^(.*)$ /mailconfig/ break;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8880;
proxy_set_header X-Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Request-URI $request_uri;
}
# mailconfig
root "/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/current/public";
access_log "/var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/logs/proxy_access_ssl_log";
error_log "/var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/logs/proxy_error_log";
#extension letsencrypt begin
location ^~ /.well-known/acme-challenge/ {
root /var/www/vhosts/default/htdocs;
types { }
default_type text/plain;
satisfy any;
auth_basic off;
allow all;
location ~ ^/\.well-known/acme-challenge.*/\. {
deny all;
}
}
#extension letsencrypt end
#extension sslit begin
#extension sslit end
#extension sectigo begin
location ^~ /.well-known/pki-validation/fileauth.txt {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
location ^~ /.well-known/pki-validation/ {
root /var/www/vhosts/default/htdocs;
types { }
default_type text/plain;
satisfy any;
auth_basic off;
allow all;
location ~ ^/\.well-known/pki-validation.*/\. {
deny all;
}
}
#extension sectigo end
error_page 400 "/error_docs/bad_request.html";
error_page 401 "/error_docs/unauthorized.html";
error_page 403 "/error_docs/forbidden.html";
error_page 404 "/error_docs/not_found.html";
error_page 500 "/error_docs/internal_server_error.html";
error_page 405 "/error_docs/method_not_allowed.html";
error_page 406 "/error_docs/not_acceptable.html";
error_page 407 "/error_docs/proxy_authentication_required.html";
error_page 412 "/error_docs/precondition_failed.html";
error_page 414 "/error_docs/request_uri_too_long.html";
error_page 415 "/error_docs/unsupported_media_type.html";
error_page 501 "/error_docs/not_implemented.html";
error_page 502 "/error_docs/bad_gateway.html";
error_page 503 "/error_docs/maintenance.html";
location ^~ /error_docs {
root "/var/www/vhosts/example.com";
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
location ~ ^/(plesk-stat|awstats-icon|webstat|webstat-ssl|ftpstat|anon_ftpstat) {
auth_basic_user_file "/var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/pd/d..httpdocs#plesk-stat";
autoindex on;
location ~ ^/plesk-stat(.*) {
alias /var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/statistics/$1;
}
location ~ ^/awstats-icon(.*) {
alias /usr/share/awstats/icon/$1;
}
location ~ ^/(.*) {
alias /var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/statistics/$1;
}
}
location ~ ^/~(.+?)(/.*?\.php)(/.*)?$ {
alias /var/www/vhosts/example.com/web_users/$1/$2;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^((?U).+\.php)(/?.+)$;
try_files $uri $fastcgi_script_name =404;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_pass "unix:/var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/php-fpm.sock";
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
}
location ~ \.php(/.*)?$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^((?U).+\.php)(/?.+)$;
try_files $uri $fastcgi_script_name =404;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_pass "unix:/var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/php-fpm.sock";
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
}
index "index.html" "index.cgi" "index.pl" "index.php" "index.xhtml" "index.htm" "index.shtml";
disable_symlinks if_not_owner "from=/var/www/vhosts/example.com";
add_header X-Powered-By PleskLin;
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/expires.global;
include "/var/www/vhosts/system/example.com/conf/vhost_nginx.conf";
}