server { listen 80; server_name localhost; # Serve static React build files root /var/www/html/frontend/dist; index index.html; # API requests to Laravel backend location /api/ { root /var/www/html/backend/public; try_files /index.php =404; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/html/backend/public/index.php; include fastcgi_params; # Increase timeouts for long-running requests fastcgi_read_timeout 300; fastcgi_send_timeout 300; } # Serve Laravel public assets (images, etc.) location /images/ { alias /var/www/html/backend/public/images/; expires 1y; add_header Cache-Control "public, immutable"; } # React app - catch all routes location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html; } # Static assets with far-future expiry location ~* \.(css|js|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico|svg|woff|woff2|ttf|eot|map)$ { expires 1y; add_header Cache-Control "public, immutable"; access_log off; } # Security headers add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN"; add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff"; add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block"; # Deny access to hidden files location ~ /\.ht { deny all; } # Deny access to sensitive files location ~ /\.(env|git) { deny all; } location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; } location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; } # Gzip compression gzip on; gzip_vary on; gzip_min_length 1024; gzip_proxied any; gzip_comp_level 6; gzip_types text/plain text/css text/xml text/javascript application/javascript application/xml+rss application/json; }