Setting up Laravel with Nginx
server { server_name .laravel.dev; root /home/tamer/code/laravel/public; index index.php index.html; #browse folders if no index file autoindex on; # serve static files directly location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html)$ { access_log off; expires max; } # removes trailing slashes (prevents SEO duplicate content issues) if (!-d $request_filename) { rewrite ^/(.+)/$ /$1 permanent; } # enforce NO www if ($host ~* ^www\.(.*)) { set $host_without_www $1; rewrite ^/(.*)$ $scheme://$host_without_www/$1 permanent; } # canonicalize codeigniter url end points # if your default controller is something other than "welcome" you should change the following if ($request_uri ~* ^(/lobby(/index)?|/index(.php)?)/?$) { rewrite ^(.*)$ / permanent; } # removes trailing "index" from all controllers if ($request_uri ~* index/?$) { rewrite ^/(.*)/index/?$ /$1 permanent; } # unless the request is for a valid file (image, js, css, etc.), send to bootstrap if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 last; break; } # catch all error_page 404 /index.php; location ~ \.php$ { try_files $uri =404; fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php.socket; fastcgi_index index.php; #include fastcgi_params; include /home/tamer/code/nginx/fastcgi_params; } access_log /home/tamer/code/laravel/storage/logs.access.log; error_log /home/tamer/code/laravel/storage/logs.error.log;}