A default NGINX Configuration file with cache support.

default.conf

server {

    server_name _;
    listen 80;

    #charset koi8-r;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/host.access.log main;


    root /var/www/laravel/public;
    index index.php;

    location / {

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

    # Socket.io block
    location ~* \.io {

        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
        proxy_set_header X-NginX-Proxy true;

        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000;
        proxy_redirect off;

        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
    }


    #error_page  404              /404.html;
    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
    error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {

        root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {

        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    }

    # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
    # concurs with nginx's one
    #
    location ~ /\.ht {

        deny all;
    }

    location ~* \.(?:jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|cur|gz|svg|svgz|mp4|ogg|ogv|webm|htc)$ {

        expires 2M;
        access_log off;
        add_header Cache-Control "public";
    }

    # CSS and Javascript
    location ~* \.(?:css|js)$ {

        expires 2M;
        access_log off;
        add_header Cache-Control "public";
    }
    # dynamic data
    location ~* \.(?:manifest|appcache|html?|xml|json)$ {

        expires -1;
    }
}