nginx custom root for certain addresses - laravel

Question

I have installed nginx to my VPN. And I'm a very beginner with that so it might be a stupid mistake but I was unable to figure our or google it.
What I'm trying to do and keep failing in it is set the root folder for certain addresses. For example:
mydomain.com/websiteone/ will have root folder in /var/www/websiteone/public/ and
mydomain.com/websitetwo/ in /var/www/websitetwo/public/
Im using Laravel that why I need to do that.
Here is the confing and what I was attempting in different variations.
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
root /var/www;
index index.html index.php index.htm;
location /websiteone/ {
root /var/www/websiteone/public/;
try_files $uri $uri/ 404;
}
location /websitetwo/ {
root /var/www/websitetwo/public/;
try_files $uri $uri/ 404;
}
}

Answer 1

No need for alias or anything fancy as long as URL dir path matches to actual directory names of your two Laravel instances (see below).
Also, Laravel has a typical "front controller" URL pattern, which means URLs that do not exist should be bootstrapped through its index.php. So:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
root /var/www;
index index.html index.php index.htm;
location /websiteone/ {
root /var/www/websiteone/;
try_files /public$uri /public$uri/ /public/index.php$is_args$args;
}
location /websitetwo/ {
root /var/www/websitetwo/;
try_files /public$uri /public$uri/ /public/index.php$is_args$args;
}
}