Laravel + AngularJS Nginx routing

Question

I have the following issue, I need to configure Nginx, so on any URL user accesses, it will keep the uri (example domain.com/some/url/), but pass to laravel only / and let Angular handle the routing.

Route::get('/', function(){
   return view('index');
});

And when accessing /api/{anything} Laravel will kick in.

For now I return index.html from public folder until I find solution Here is My Config:

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

I know I can make a route like:

Route::get('{anything?}', function(){
    return view('index');
});

But is to broad.

Update:

location / {
    rewrite ^/(.*)$ / break;
    index index.php;
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
}
location /api {
    index index.php;
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}

Answer 1

You can't achieve you goal with simple rewrite. Laravel always knows about the real URI.

The key point is that you need to handle all requests with just one route. Laravel uses $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] variable to route and it is passed to Laravel from fastcgi. The variable REQUEST_URI is set in fastcgi_params file from nginx's $request_uri variable:

fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;

So you need to pass REQUEST_URI as / to Laravel to handle request /bla/bla as it is /.

Just add one line to your config:

location ~ \.php$ {
    # now you have smth like this
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
    fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    include fastcgi_params;

    # add the following line right after fastcgi_params to rewrite value of the variable
    fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI       /;
}

If you have /api/ as well, you need some edits for the line:

set $request_url $request_uri;
if ($request_uri !~ ^/api/(.*)$ ) {
    set $request_url /;
}
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI $request_url;

Nginx warns that if is an evil, that's just a first idea.

To sum up:

/ goes to Laravel / route.

/api/* go to Laravel api routes.

Another requests go to Laravel / route.