How to Serve Laravel Application in handle or handle_path directives

[bayntepesos (Jolan)]

1. The problem I’m having:

I have multiple apps and I only have 1 DNS. To separate the apps, I add prefix in the URI, e.g. www.domain.test/app-1, www.domain.test/app-2, and so on. So I preferred to use handle or handle_path directives in my configurations. The Problem: Only my laravel application always ends-up to 404 Not Found.

2. Error messages and/or full log output:

![image|690x325](upload://9cYbm5HQ7ehqr8LD9KW2CREbs96.png)

3. Caddy version:

v2.7.4

4. How I installed and ran Caddy:

a. System environment:

OS: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS 22.04 Jammy
Laravel: v9

b. My complete Caddy config:

sub.domain.test {
   encode zstd gzip
   import static
   import security

   handle_path /alias-laravel-app* {
     root * /var/www/html/laravel-app/public
     php_fastcgi unix//var/run/php/php8.1-fpm.sock
   }
   
   root * /var/www/html/
   php_fastcgi unix//var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock
   file_server
}

5. Links to relevant resources:

[francislavoie]

You’ll need to configure your routes (in web.php probably) to be aware of /alias-laravel-app as a base. You can wrap all your routes like this:

Route::prefix('alias-laravel-app')->group(function () {
    // Your routes here
});

See this article:

The "subfolder problem", OR, "why can't I reverse proxy my app into a subfolder?"

Have you ever tried to reverse proxy an app into its own little subfolder of your domain name? Makes things neat, doesn’t it? Using example.com/foo/ for one app, example.com/bar/ for another. If you’re coming here from one of the selfhosted communities, you might be thinking along the lines of example.com/sonarr/, example.com/radarr/ etc. Chances are, you’ve tried some configuration along these lines: example.com { redir /sonarr /sonarr/ handle_path /sonarr/* { reverse_proxy localhost…

Ultimately the key is that your upstream app needs to be aware of being run within a subpath.

[bayntepesos (Jolan)]

It worked, Thanks for the idea.