Server with multiple projects in /var/www? - nginx

Question

I have a server that I want to use as a personal server, with all of my projects under /var/www.
I currently have two folders, /var/www/html and /var/www/site.
I want to be able to access these folders by the following URLs (123.123.123.123 is my server IP):
123.123.123.123/html and 123.123.123.123/site
Here is my default virtual host file:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
root /var/www/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name 123.123.123.123;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
And here is the one I created for /var/www/site, called site:
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
# Because this site uses Laravel, it needs to point to /public
root /var/www/site/public;
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name 123.123.123.123;
location /site {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
But when I go to 123.123.123.123/site, it says 404 Not Found, so clearly I'm doing something wrong (and yes, I restarted nginx).
Please help!

Answer 1

You only need one server block, as both /html and /site live in the same server.
Use nginx -t to check that nginx really does restart without giving any errors.
As /site uses a complicated directory scheme, you will need to use a nested location block to get the paths correct.
Your first project seems to have a simple arrangement of static and PHP files. You can use a root /var/www; statement to map URIs beginning with /html to the html folder. See this document for more.
Something like this may work for you:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
root /var/www/;
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
location ^~ /site {
alias /var/www/site/public;
if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^ /site/index.php last; }
location ~ \.php$ {
if (!-f $request_filename) { return 404; }
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
}
}
}
The default server does not need a server_name.