ardnor · January 30, 2018 15:04 · Nov 6, 2015 · Nov 6, 2015 · Nov 6, 2015
diff --git a/laravel_nginx.md b/laravel_nginx.md
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ Prerequisites
 * Laravel 5.1
 * Nginx 1.8
 
-___
-
 Default Server Block
 -------------------------
 Nginx Server Blocks are located in /etc/nginx/sites-available. The filename for default block is "default".
@@ -50,8 +48,6 @@ server {
 }
 ```
 
-___
-
 Other Domains Server Blocks
 -----------------------------------
 Other blocks are located in same folder of default block (/etc/nginx/sites-available). Filename for each domain is domain_name.
@@ -66,17 +62,18 @@ server {
     root "/var/www/domain_name/public";
     index index.html index.htm index.php;
 	
-	# charset of Content-Type” response header field
+    # charset of "Content-Type" response header field
     charset utf-8;
     
     # set the maximum allowed size of the client request body
     #client_max_body_size 100m;
 
-     # log settings
+    # log settings
     access_log off;
     error_log  /var/log/nginx/domain_name-error.log error;
 
-# turn off access logs and prevents logging an error if robots.txt and favicon.ico are not found
+    # turn off access logs and prevents logging 
+    # an error if robots.txt and favicon.ico are not found
     location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
     location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
 
@@ -104,7 +101,7 @@ server {
         fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
     }
 
-	# block access to .htaccess files
+    # block access to .htaccess files
     location ~ /\.ht {
         deny all;
     }

diff --git a/laravel_nginx → laravel_nginx.md b/laravel_nginx → laravel_nginx.md
diff --git a/laravel_nginx b/laravel_nginx
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+Nginx Server Blocks configuration to run more than one Laravel 5.1 web-app off of a single Linux server 
+
+Prerequisites
+----------------
+* PHP package: php5-fpm php5-mcrypt php5-mysql
+* Laravel 5.1
+* Nginx 1.8
+
+___
+
+Default Server Block
+-------------------------
+Nginx Server Blocks are located in /etc/nginx/sites-available. The filename for default block is "default".
+```
+server {
+	# default server specification
+	listen 80 default_server;
+
+	# site accessible from http://domain_or_ip
+	server_name domain_or_ip;
+
+	# file location	
+	root /var/www/html;
+	index index.php index.html index.htm;
+
+	# check if a file or directory index file exists, else route it to 404 error page.
+	location / {
+        	try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
+   	 }
+
+   	# error pages
+	error_page 404 /404.html;
+	error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
+	location = /50x.html {
+   	 	root /usr/share/nginx/html;
+	}
+
+	# handle execution of PHP files
+	# set php5-fpm socket
+	# tell NGINX to proxy requests to PHP FPM via the FCGI protocol
+	location ~ \.php$ {
+        	try_files $uri =404;
+        	fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
+        	fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
+        	fastcgi_index index.php;
+        	fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
+        	include fastcgi_params;
+    }
+
+}
+```
+
+___
+
+Other Domains Server Blocks
+-----------------------------------
+Other blocks are located in same folder of default block (/etc/nginx/sites-available). Filename for each domain is domain_name.
+```
+server {
+    listen 80;
+
+    # site accessible from domain_name
+    server_name domain_name;
+
+    # file location (note the "public" folder of Laravel)
+    root "/var/www/domain_name/public";
+    index index.html index.htm index.php;
+
+	# charset of Content-Type” response header field
+    charset utf-8;
+
+    # set the maximum allowed size of the client request body
+    #client_max_body_size 100m;
+
+     # log settings
+    access_log off;
+    error_log  /var/log/nginx/domain_name-error.log error;
+
+# turn off access logs and prevents logging an error if robots.txt and favicon.ico are not found
+    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
+    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
+
+
+    # check if a file or directory index file exists, 
+    # else pass the request to the index.php as a query parameter.
+    location / {
+        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
+    }
+
+    # handle execution of PHP files
+    # set php5-fpm socket
+    # tell NGINX to proxy requests to PHP FPM via the FCGI protocol
+    location ~ \.php$ {
+        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
+        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
+        fastcgi_index index.php;
+        include fastcgi_params;
+        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
+        fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
+        fastcgi_buffer_size 16k;
+        fastcgi_buffers 4 16k;
+        fastcgi_connect_timeout 300;
+        fastcgi_send_timeout 300;
+        fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
+    }
+
+	# block access to .htaccess files
+    location ~ /\.ht {
+        deny all;
+    }
+
+}
+```