Hands-On Full Stack Web Development with Angular 6 and Laravel 5

Configuring nginx

Now, it's time to create the configuration files for the nginx and php-fpm servers, so we will be using the nginx reverse proxy to serve our PHP files to the web.

Inside the nginx folder, create a new file called nginx.conf and add the following code:

server {    listen 80 default;    client_max_body_size 308M;    access_log /var/log/nginx/application.access.log;    root /application/public;    index index.php;    if (!-e $request_filename) {        rewrite ^.*$ /index.php last;    }    location ~ \.php$ {        fastcgi_pass php-fpm:9000;        fastcgi_index index.php;        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME         $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;        fastcgi_param PHP_VALUE         "error_log=/var/log/nginx/application_php_errors.log";        fastcgi_buffers 16 16k;        fastcgi_buffer_size 32k; include ...