Laravel + Nginx: can we serve app from /something and from a different folder?

Question

On disk

• /var/www/mainapp -> some other legacy .php files without any magic url handling
• /var/www/laravel - > my laravel app

I must serve

• accessing domain.tld -> mainapp
• accessing domain.tld/laravel -> my laravel app

The problem is also that Laravel's app are entirelyt served from /var/www/laravel/public/index.php as you of course know

I am not able to set nginx to serve /laravel and all subroutes using laravel app

Answer 1

Something as simple as this should work:

server {
    server_name domain.tld;

    location / {
        root /var/www/mainapp;
        # add php/fpm config
    }

    location /laravel {
        root /var/www/laravel;
        # add php/fpm config
    }
}