Deploy Laravel Project with Nginx Server on Ubuntu or Debian. This blog will show you how to install Laravel with Nginx on Ubuntu/Debian.
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I faced an error while deploying Laravel project. The error how to fix index.php because this file is in public folder. Now it is fixed. As we simply add /public for root, e.g. root /home/hassam.dev/public_html/public I shared my Nginx config file. Hope it’ll be definitely helpful to you.
1. Nginx Server Details
Below are my server details, you can follow this tutorial on Ubuntu, PHP7+, and Nginx server.
- Hetzner.com CPX11 Package [https://www.hetzner.com/cloud]
- Debian 11
- 2 Cores AMD Processor
- 2GB RAM + 1GB Swap RAM
- Virtualmin (website control panel)
- Nginx
- MySQL, MariaDB
- PHP 8.2
2. Nginx Configuration for Laravel
In localhost, we ran a command php artisan serve to start the project and npm run dev to start Vite server. As we know index.php falls in public folder. To access index.php we need to visit http:hassam.dev/public So, how we can fix it? The solution is using Virtual Host so, it should route the traffic into the public directory inside the project directory.
#hassam.dev.conf
#Before
root /home/hassam.dev/public_html;
#After
root /home/hassam.dev/public_html/public;I provided a full .conf file below.
#! /bin/bash
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/domain1.confOpen up the config file from your terminal with this command sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/hassam.dev.conf and update the code to the following: Replace hassam.dev with your domain name.
server {
server_name domain1.com www.domain1.com;
listen 143.190.21X.1XX;
root /home/domain1/public_html/public;
index index.php index.htm index.html;
access_log /var/log/virtualmin/hassam.dev_access_log;
error_log /var/log/virtualmin/hassam.dev_error_log;
fastcgi_param GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx;
fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME "/home/hassam.dev/public_html$fastcgi_script_name";
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT /home/hassam.dev/public_html;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT $remote_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param HTTPS $https;
add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";
# fixed permalink_issues
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ^~ /.well-known/ {
try_files $uri /;
}
location ~ "\.php(/|$)" {
try_files $uri $fastcgi_script_name =404;
default_type application/x-httpd-php;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/php-nginx/1671702822117723.sock/socket;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
fastcgi_split_path_info "^(.+\.php)(/.+)$";
location /cgi-bin/ {
gzip off;
root /home/domain1/cgi-bin;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/fcgiwrap/1671702822117723.sock/socket;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME "/home/hassam.dev$fastcgi_script_name";
fastcgi_param GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx;
fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT /home/hassam.dev/public_html;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT $remote_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param HTTPS $https;
}
fastcgi_read_timeout 60;
listen 143.198.21X.1XX:443 ssl;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/virtualmin/1671702822XX7723/ssl.combined;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/virtualmin/1671702822117XX3/ssl.key;
}Save the file and restart Nginx with the following command
service nginx configtest
service nginx restart3. Enable GZIP for the Nginx website
server {
....
....
gzip on;
gzip_disable "msie6";
gzip_vary on;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_comp_level 6;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_min_length 256;
gzip_types
application/geo+json
application/javascript
application/x-javascript
application/json
application/ld+json
application/manifest+json
application/rdf+xml
application/rss+xml
application/xhtml+xml
application/xml
font/eot
font/otf
font/ttf
image/svg+xml
text/css
text/javascript
text/plain
text/xml;
client_max_body_size 48M;
}4. Add Expires Headers Nginx Server
It’s best to set ExpiresByType headers for most of your site resources, including your HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and XML files and images and other media files. Then you can set an ExpiresDefault as a catch-all for the rest of your content. Expires headers tell the browser whether they should request a specific file from the server or whether they should grab it from the browser’s cache.
server {
....
....
# Expiry Headers
location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png)$ {
expires 365d;
}
location ~* \.(pdf|css|html|js|swf)$ {
expires 30d;
}
location ~* \.(png|jpg|jpeg|gif)$ {
expires 365d;
add_header Cache-Control "public, no-transform";
}
location ~* \.(js|css|pdf|html|swf)$ {
expires 30d;
add_header Cache-Control "public, no-transform";
}
# END Expiry Headers
}5. Fix the sitemap issue on Nginx Server
server {
....
....
# START Nginx Rewrites for Sitemaps
rewrite ^/sitemap_index.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=1 last;
rewrite ^/([^/]+?)-sitemap([0-9]+)?.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=$1&sitemap_n=$2 last;
rewrite ^/([a-z]+)?-sitemap\.xsl$ /index.php?xsl=$1 last;
# END Nginx Rewrites for Sitemaps
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