Docker Nginx weird behaviors - laravel

Question

I am writing an nginx container to host a laravel site. Currently I am working on the nginx container and experiencing a weird behavior. Ever other other request you get can not connect and the other times you get the welcome page.
Here is my multi stage build
#
# PHP Dependencies
#
FROM composer:1.7 as vendor
COPY database/ database/
COPY composer.json composer.json
COPY composer.lock composer.lock
RUN composer install \
--ignore-platform-reqs \
--no-interaction \
--no-plugins \
--no-scripts \
--prefer-dist
#
# Frontend
#
FROM node:8.11 as frontend
RUN mkdir -p /app/public
COPY package.json webpack.mix.js /app/
COPY resources/ /app/resources/
WORKDIR /app
RUN npm install && npm run production
#
# Application
#
FROM nginx:latest
# Set upstream conf and remove the default conf
# RUN echo "upstream php-upstream { server php:9000; }" > /etc/nginx/conf.d/upstream.conf \
# && rm /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
COPY nginx.conf /etc/nginx/
COPY . /var/www/studyup
COPY --from=vendor /app/vendor/ /var/www/vendor/
COPY --from=frontend /app/public/js/ /var/www/public/js/
COPY --from=frontend /app/public/css/ /var/www/public/css/
COPY --from=frontend /app/mix-manifest.json /var/www/mix-manifest.json
EXPOSE 80 443
THe nginx config file
user www-data;
worker_processes 4;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
daemon off;
events {
worker_connections 2048;
multi_accept on;
use epoll;
}
http {
server_tokens off;
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
keepalive_timeout 15;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
client_max_body_size 20M;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
access_log /dev/stdout;
error_log /dev/stderr;
gzip on;
gzip_disable "msie6";
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!DSS';
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-available/*.conf;
open_file_cache off; # Disabled for issue 619
charset UTF-8;
}
The sites available config
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
# For https
# listen 443 ssl;
# listen [::]:443 ssl ipv6only=on;
# ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/default.crt;
# ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/default.key;
server_name testsite.com;
root /var/www/public;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri /index.php =404;
fastcgi_pass php;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_buffers 16 16k;
fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
#fixes timeouts
fastcgi_read_timeout 600;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
location /.well-known/acme-challenge/ {
root /var/www/letsencrypt/;
log_not_found off;
}
error_log /var/log/nginx/laravel_error.log;
access_log /var/log/nginx/laravel_access.log;
}
I am not sure what is going on> I tried using the nginx latest and I could not even get the welcome page to go away. I personally have not been able to find anything about what is going on, but I might now what to search also. Any help would be great