nginx web server configuration for laravel. Being used on an AWS EC2 instance with ubuntu 14.04. Note that Rocketeer is being used for deployment/CI.

laravel-nginx-site

server {

    # Port that the web server will listen on.
    listen          80;

    # Host that will serve this project.
    server_name     my-project.local;

    access_log      /var/www/my-project/log/access.log;
    error_log       /var/www/my-project/log/error.log;
    rewrite_log     on;

    # The location of our projects public directory.
    root            /var/www/my-project/current/public;

    # Point index to the Laravel front controller.
    index           index.php;

    location / {

        # URLs to attempt, including pretty ones.
        try_files   $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;

    }

    # Remove trailing slash to please routing system.
    if (!-d $request_filename) {
        rewrite     ^/(.+)/$ /$1 permanent;
    }

    # PHP FPM configuration.
    location ~* \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass                    unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
            fastcgi_index                   index.php;
            fastcgi_split_path_info         ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
            include                         /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
            # When you are using symlinks to link the document root to the
            # current version of your application, you should pass the real
            # application path instead of the path to the symlink to PHP
            # FPM.
            # Otherwise, PHP's OPcache may not properly detect changes to
            # your PHP files (see https://github.com/zendtech/ZendOptimizerPlus/issues/126
            # for more information).
            fastcgi_param                   SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
            fastcgi_param                   DOCUMENT_ROOT $realpath_root;
    }

    # We don't need .ht files with nginx.
    location ~ /\.ht {
            deny all;
    }

    # Set header expirations on per-project basis
    location ~* \.(?:ico|css|js|jpe?g|JPG|png|svg|woff)$ {
            expires 365d;

    }
}