How to do it...

As Laravel is PHP based, we'll be using PHP-FPM to compile the PHP code and present to NGINX. If this is new to you, it's worth reading through Chapter 2, Common PHP Scenarios which covers some of the other PHP scenarios and the PHP-FPM configuration.

To get going, we'll create a separate virtual configuration file for Laravel:

server { 
    listen       80; 
    server_name  laravel.nginxcookbook.com; 
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/laravel.access.log  combined; 
    index index.php; 
 
    root   /var/www/vhosts/laraveldemo/public; 
 
    location / { 
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; 
    } 
 
    location ~ \.php$ { 
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php7.0-fpm.sock; 
        fastcgi_index index.php; 
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME 
         $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; 
        include fastcgi_params; 
    } 
}