Nginx multiple locations laravel project - laravel

Question

I am having issues trying to setup a second set of locations for my Nginx Setup. I currently have 1 working route, that uses reverse proxy to a NodeJS Express server.
I am tryin to setup a second location to serve a laravel project, here is my Nginx config file, I know there are some errors, but after googling I coulnd't find an answer on my own.
Thanks
server {
listen 443 http2 ssl;
listen [::]:443 http2 ssl;
server_name some.server.com
ssl on;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/some.server.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/some.server.com/privkey.pem;
# This doesnt work, its a laravel project
# Theres something wrong with my try_files
location /project2 {
root /home/ubuntu/project2/public/;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
# This works, I am reverse proxying to NodeJS Application
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:3001;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
}
}

Answer 1

You need to add something to the /project2 that tells nginx how to handle php files. a block that will know what to do with
I grabbed the following from here. I updated your location regex, though I haven't tested, so you may need to fix it (everything about nginx is trial and error until it works):
location ~* /project2/(.*\.php)$ {
root /home/ubuntu/project2/public/;
try_files $1 $1/ $1/index.php?$query_string;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
You are serving from /home/ubuntu/project2/public/, but your php urls end with project2, so you need to do a bit of regex magic to extract the proper url.
Of course, if you can make things simpler with your directory structure, you can use a simpler regex.