Setting up multisite with nginx - laravel

Question

Having some problems setting up the following setup with nginx:
example.com
example.com/gb/en
These are laravel sites and the gb/en is the first of more that will be added. Root works obvs but I can't get /gb/en to point at the /gb/en/public folder.
I have tried a bunch of things but this is my current conf file:
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name www.example.com;
root /home/forge/www.example.com/public;
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2;
ssl_ciphers TEST;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_dhparam /etc/nginx/dhparams.pem;
add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";
index index.html index.htm index.php;
charset utf-8;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location /gb/en {
root /home/forge/www.example.com/gb/en/public;
}
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
access_log off;
error_log /var/log/nginx/www.example.com-error.log error;
error_page 404 /index.php;
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
deny all;
}
}
You can see my location block in there which I have tried a number of different ways but to no avail.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT:
So I've got one step closer once I realised that the sub folders in the url also get added to the root directory:
location /gb/en/ {
root /home/forge/www.example.com/public;
try_files $uri $uri/ /public/index.php?url=$uri;
}
So, my files are under /public/gb/en/public but the above resolves to /public/gb/en/index.php
How can I get /gb/en/ to resolve to public/gb/en/public/index.php?
Many thanks ;)
EDIT:
The idea came to me suddenly - use a symlink! I symlinked the /gb/en to the public folder in a separate folder and it worked a treat ;)

Answer 1

I would sugest to copy the try_files line into the /en/gb block. In that folder or site you are not specifying the extensions you would like to use as you are doing in the one that works.
Try this:
location /gb/en {
root /home/forge/www.example.com/gb/en/public;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
However, if the content of /en/gb is related to the site, setting this up directly in Laravel might be a better option.

Answer 2

I used a symlink in the end to achieve this. I symlinked /gb/en to the public folder in another location and it did what I was after ;)
EDIT - I later found that this also had problems with sub pages but then found this example and it helped to achieve what I wanted to in the first place https://gist.github.com/noeldiaz/08a1211a7c47f21f7083