laravel.conf

upstream backend {
    # no load balancing method is specified for Round Robin
    #ip_hash;
    server php:9000 max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;
    #server php2:9000 max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;
    #server php3:9000 max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;

    #server app-2.dennys_development-network:8002 max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;
    # server app-3:8003 max_fails=3 fail_timeout=30s;
}


server {
    listen 8000 default_server;
	listen [::]:8000 default_server ipv6only=on;

    server_name localhost;

    access_log /srv/access.log;
    error_log /srv/error.log;

    root /opt/public;
    index index.php index.html;

    # serve static files directly
	location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html)$ {
		access_log off;
		expires max;
		log_not_found off;
	}

	# 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;
	}

	# 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;
	}

	location / {
		try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
	}

	# location ~* \.php$ {
    #     try_files $uri = 404;
    #     fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
    #     fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm.sock; # may also be: 127.0.0.1:9000;
    #     fastcgi_index index.php;
    #     fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    #     include fastcgi_params;
    # }

	location ~ \.php$ {
		try_files $uri =404;
		fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
		fastcgi_pass backend;
		fastcgi_index index.php;
      	fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
		include fastcgi_params;
      }

    location ~ /\.ht {
		deny all;
	}
}