nginx return file not found with nginx-proxy and doesn't load static files

In order to serve the static files from a container using the nginx proxy, the nginx proxy must have access to files statically... it would not 'proxy' but 'read' and serve the files... which means you must mount the app files into the proxy...

I would recommend you put up a new, light and clean nginx behind the nginx proxy along with your php-fpm service so you can have full management of your routes/locations,

First of all I have created a docker-compose.yml in my app that contains the following:

version: '3.9'services:php-fpm:    container_name: boilerplate_app    restart: always    build:    context: .    dockerfile: ./docker/php-fpm/Dockerfile    volumes:    - ./src:/var/www/htmlnginx:    image: nginx:stable-alpine    container_name: boilerplate_nginx    restart: always    volumes:    - ./src:/var/www/html    - ./docker/nginx/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf    - ./docker/nginx/sites/:/etc/nginx/sites-available    - ./docker/nginx/conf.d/:/etc/nginx/conf.d    depends_on:    - php-fpm    environment:    VIRTUAL_HOST: example.com    LETSENCRYPT_HOST: example.com    LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL: info@example.com    database:    container_name: boilerplate_db    restart: always    build:    context: ./docker/database    environment:    - MYSQL_DATABASE=boilerplate    - MYSQL_USER=user    - MYSQL_PASSWORD=secret    - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret    volumes:    - ./docker/database/data.sql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/data.sqlphpmyadmin:    container_name: boilerplate_phpmyadmin    image: phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin    restart: always    ports:    - 8088:80    environment:    - PMA_HOST=database    - MYSQL_USER=user    - MYSQL_PASSWORD=secret    - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret    depends_on:    - database    networks:default:    external:    name: proxy

then, inside my app directory I have created the nginx configurations structure:

app   docker       nginx           conf.d              default.conf           sites              default.conf        nginx.conf

where I have conf.d:

upstream php-upstream {    server php-fpm:9000;}

then I have sites:

server {    root   /var/www/html/public;    index index.php;    location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) {    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(/.*)$;    include fastcgi_params;    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;    fastcgi_param PATH_INFO       $fastcgi_path_info;    fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$fastcgi_path_info;    fastcgi_pass   php-upstream;    fastcgi_index  index.php;    }}

and nginx.conf:

user  nginx;worker_processes  4;error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;events {    worker_connections  1024;}http {    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;    default_type  application/octet-stream;    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log;    # Switch logging to console out to view via Docker    #access_log /dev/stdout;    #error_log /dev/stderr;    sendfile        on;    keepalive_timeout  65;        include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;    include /etc/nginx/sites-available/*.conf;}

the site load now but there are some issues:

1. Performance issue: we have two nginx layer here and the load time is increased a lot
2. If I browse some url like example.com/admin I get 404 from nginx, guess it's a configuration issue on my own