A simple approach to configure a server to support laravel in subdirectory, at specific port and redirect the results to subdirectory itself

nginx-subdirectory-laravel

/*
 * code copy+paste from http://forumsarchive.laravel.io/viewtopic.php?id=16598 
 * 
 */
 # Beginning of my server {...} block skipped
 # Serve static files directly with max expire
 
    location ~* ^/app1/.*\.(xml|ogg|ogv|svg|svgz|eot|otf|woff|mp4|ttf|css|rss|atom|js|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|ppt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|txt)$ {
        root    /var/www/apps.domain.com/Laravel_App1/public;
        rewrite ^/app1/?(.*)$   /$1  break;

        try_files $uri =404;
        expires max;
        access_log off;
    }

    # Forward all related to this sub-folder to an upstream server
    location    ^~  /app1  {
        root    /var/www/apps.domain.com/Laravel_App1/public;
        rewrite ^/app1/?(.*)$   /$1  break;

        proxy_pass              http://127.0.0.1:8081;
        proxy_set_header        Host $host;
    }
    # The rest of this server {...} block skipped, too

### Upstream for Laravel App1
server {
    listen      127.0.0.1:8081;
    root    /var/www/apps.domain.com/Laravel_App1/public;

    index       index.php  index.html  /index.php;    

    ### Static files and "pretty" paths
    location /  {
        root    /var/www/apps.domain.com/Laravel_App1/public;
        index   index.php   index.html;
        try_files   $uri  $uri/ /app1/index.php$is_args$args;
    }
    
    location ~ /.+\.php$    {
        try_files $uri /index.php =404;
        
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
        
        fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME    /var/www/apps.domain.com/Laravel_App1/public$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_index   index.php;
        fastcgi_pass    php;    # "php" is defined in http section:  upstream php { server unix:/var/run/php-fpm.sock; }
        fastcgi_param   SERVER_NAME     apps.domain.com;
    }
}