Multiple Laravel Applications Using Nginx - Windows

For windows use fastcgi_pass as 127.0.0.1:9000 instead of unix socket.

Please make sure your php cgi is running. If not, you can start it by

1. Open command prompt
2. Go to path of php-cgi file. (e.g. C:\php-7.3.11, here you'll find fast-cgi.exe).
2. php-cgi.exe -b 127.0.0.1:9000

Nginx configuration with rewrite module.

# Nginx.conf
# App 1(Path: D:/APPLICATION/application1, Url: http://localhost)
# App 2(Path: D:/APPLICATION/application2, Url: http://localhost/application2)
server {
    # Listing port and host address
    # If 443, make sure to include ssl configuration for the same.
    listen 80; 
    listen [::]:80;

    server_name localhost;

    # Default index pages
    index index.php;

    # Root for / project
    root "D:/APPLICATION/application1/public";

    # Handle main root / project
    location / {
        #deny all;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

    # Handle application2 project
    location /application2 {
        # Root for this project
        root "D:/APPLICATION/application2/public";

        # Rewrite $uri=/application2/xyz back to just $uri=/xyz
        rewrite ^/application2/(.*)$ /$1 break;

        # Try to send static file at $url or $uri/
        # Else try /index.php (which will hit location ~\.php$ below)
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

    # Handle all locations *.php files (which will always be just /index.php)
    # via factcgi PHP-FPM unix socket
    location ~ \.php$ {
        # We don't want to pass /application2/xyz to PHP-FPM, we want just /xyz to pass to fastcgi REQUESTE_URI below. 
        # So laravel route('/xyz') responds to /application2/xyz as you would expect.
        set $newurl $request_uri;
        if ($newurl ~ ^/application2(.*)$) {
                set $newurl $1;
                root "D:/APPLICATION/application2/public";
        }

        # Pass all PHP files to fastcgi php fpm unix socket
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        # Use php fastcgi rather than php fpm sock
        fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000; 
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
        # Here we are telling php fpm to use updated route that we've created to properly
        # response to laravel routes.
        fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $newurl;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    }

    # Deny .ht* access
    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}

Note: When we're using session based laravel setup, all the route generator functions(url(), route()) use hostname localhost as root url not localhost/application2. To resolve this issue please do following changes in laravel app.

1. Define APP_URL in .env file as APP_URL="localhost/application2"
2. Go to RouteServiceProvider which is located at app/Providers/RouteServiceProvider and force laravel to use APP_URL as root url for your app.

public function boot()
{
    parent::boot();
    // Add following lines to force laravel to use APP_URL as root url for the app.
    $strBaseURL = $this->app['url'];
    $strBaseURL->forceRootUrl(config('app.url'));
}

Update: Make sure to run php artisan config:clear or php artisan config:cache command to load the updated value of APP_URL.

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