Multiple Laravel Applications Using Nginx - Windows - laravel

Question

I have two different laravel application on my server machine.
They are located at:
D:/APPLICATION/application1
and
D:/APPLICATION/application2
Below is my nginx.conf content:
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
location / {
root "D:/APPLICATION/application1/public";
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri /index.php = 404;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
location ^~ /application2 {
alias "D:/APPLICATION/application2/public";
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri /index.php = 404;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
}
If I browse http://x.x.x.x/, my first laravel web application comes out perfectly.
But if I browse http://x.x.x.x/application2 I am having No input file specified.
Anything I am missing here?

Answer 1

For windows use fastcgi_pass as 127.0.0.1:9000 instead of unix socket.
Please make sure your php cgi is running. If not, you can start it by
1. Open command prompt
2. Go to path of php-cgi file. (e.g. C:\php-7.3.11, here you'll find fast-cgi.exe).
2. php-cgi.exe -b 127.0.0.1:9000
Nginx configuration with rewrite module.
# Nginx.conf
# App 1(Path: D:/APPLICATION/application1, Url: http://localhost)
# App 2(Path: D:/APPLICATION/application2, Url: http://localhost/application2)
server {
# Listing port and host address
# If 443, make sure to include ssl configuration for the same.
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name localhost;
# Default index pages
index index.php;
# Root for / project
root "D:/APPLICATION/application1/public";
# Handle main root / project
location / {
#deny all;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
# Handle application2 project
location /application2 {
# Root for this project
root "D:/APPLICATION/application2/public";
# Rewrite $uri=/application2/xyz back to just $uri=/xyz
rewrite ^/application2/(.*)$ /$1 break;
# Try to send static file at $url or $uri/
# Else try /index.php (which will hit location ~\.php$ below)
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
# Handle all locations *.php files (which will always be just /index.php)
# via factcgi PHP-FPM unix socket
location ~ \.php$ {
# We don't want to pass /application2/xyz to PHP-FPM, we want just /xyz to pass to fastcgi REQUESTE_URI below.
# So laravel route('/xyz') responds to /application2/xyz as you would expect.
set $newurl $request_uri;
if ($newurl ~ ^/application2(.*)$) {
set $newurl $1;
root "D:/APPLICATION/application2/public";
}
# Pass all PHP files to fastcgi php fpm unix socket
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
# Use php fastcgi rather than php fpm sock
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
# Here we are telling php fpm to use updated route that we've created to properly
# response to laravel routes.
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $newurl;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
# Deny .ht* access
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
Note: When we're using session based laravel setup, all the route generator functions(url(), route()) use hostname localhost as root url not localhost/application2. To resolve this issue please do following changes in laravel app.
Define APP_URL in .env file as APP_URL="localhost/application2"
Go to RouteServiceProvider which is located at app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider and force laravel to use APP_URL as root url for your app.
public function boot()
{
parent::boot();
// Add following lines to force laravel to use APP_URL as root url for the app.
$strBaseURL = $this->app['url'];
$strBaseURL->forceRootUrl(config('app.url'));
}
Update: Make sure to run php artisan config:clear or php artisan config:cache command to load the updated value of APP_URL.
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