NGINX

James Sessford • March 23, 2020

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NGINX has been my web server of choice for quite a few years now. There are many approaches for fine tuning but the template below serves as the starting point for a new Laravel project:

server {
 
## Begin - Server Info
listen 80;
index index.html index.php;
root /home/user/site/deploys/current/public;
server_name site.test;
## End - Server Info
 
## Begin - Index
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
## End - Index
 
## Begin - PHP
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
}
## End - PHP
 
## Begin - Security
# deny all direct access for these folders
location ~* /(.git|cache|bin|logs|backups|tests)/.*$ { return 403; }
# deny running scripts inside core system folders
location ~* /(system|vendor)/.*\.(txt|xml|md|html|yaml|php|pl|py|cgi|twig|sh|bat)$ { return 403; }
# deny running scripts inside user folder
location ~* /user/.*\.(txt|md|yaml|php|pl|py|cgi|twig|sh|bat)$ { return 403; }
# deny access to specific files in the root folder
location ~ /(LICENSE.txt|composer.lock|composer.json|nginx.conf|web.config|htaccess.txt|\.htaccess) { return 403; }
## End - Security
}

Continuous Delivery

The NGINX setup I'm using above allows me to achieve continuous delivery of my projects; /current/ is symlinked to the correct folder during my deployment process.