Prerender.io Nginx Configuration for Laravel

gistfile1.txt

server {
    listen      YOUR_IP_ADDRESS;
    server_name YOUR_URL;
    error_log  /var/log/httpd/domains/YOUR_URL.error.log error;
    location / {
        try_files $uri @prerender;
        proxy_pass      YOUR_IP_ADDRESS;
        location ~* ^.+\.(jpeg|jpg|png|gif|bmp|ico|svg|tif|tiff|css|js|htm|html|ttf|otf|webp|woff|txt|csv|rtf|doc|docx|xls|xlsx|ppt|pptx|odf|odp|ods|odt|pdf|psd|ai|eot|eps|ps|zip|tar|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|7z|aac|m4a|mp3|mp4|ogg|wav|wma|3gp|avi|flv|m4v|mkv|mov|mpeg|mpg|wmv|exe|iso|dmg|swf)$ {
            root           /home/admin/web/YOUR_URL/public_html;
            access_log     /var/log/httpd/domains/YOUR_URL.log combined;
            access_log     /var/log/httpd/domains/YOUR_URL.bytes bytes;
            expires        max;
            try_files      $uri @fallback;
        }
    }

    
    #Add your additional routes here
    location ~ ^/(admin|api|oauth) {
        proxy_pass      YOUR_IP_ADDRESS;
        location ~* ^.+\.(jpeg|jpg|png|gif|bmp|ico|svg|tif|tiff|css|js|htm|html|ttf|otf|webp|woff|txt|csv|rtf|doc|docx|xls|xlsx|ppt|pptx|odf|odp|ods|odt|pdf|psd|ai|eot|eps|ps|zip|tar|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|7z|aac|m4a|mp3|mp4|ogg|wav|wma|3gp|avi|flv|m4v|mkv|mov|mpeg|mpg|wmv|exe|iso|dmg|swf)$ {
            root           /home/admin/web/YOUR_URL/public_html;
            access_log     /var/log/httpd/domains/YOUR_URL.log combined;
            access_log     /var/log/httpd/domains/YOUR_URL.bytes bytes;
            expires        max;
            try_files      $uri @fallback;
        }
    }

    location @prerender {
        # proxy_set_header X-Prerender-Token TOKEN;
        
        set $prerender 0;
        if ($http_user_agent ~* "googlebot|bingbot|yandex|baiduspider|twitterbot|facebookexternalhit|rogerbot|linkedinbot|embedly|quora link preview|showyoubot|outbrain|pinterest\/0\.|pinterestbot|slackbot|vkShare|W3C_Validator|whatsapp") {
            set $prerender 1;
        }
        if ($args ~ "_escaped_fragment_") {
            set $prerender 1;
        }
        if ($http_user_agent ~ "Prerender") {
            set $prerender 0;
        }
        if ($uri ~* "\.(js|css|xml|less|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|pdf|doc|txt|ico|rss|zip|mp3|rar|exe|wmv|doc|avi|ppt|mpg|mpeg|tif|wav|mov|psd|ai|xls|mp4|m4a|swf|dat|dmg|iso|flv|m4v|torrent|ttf|woff|svg|eot)") {
            set $prerender 0;
        }
        
        #resolve using Google's DNS server to force DNS resolution and prevent caching of IPs
        resolver 8.8.8.8;
 
        if ($prerender = 1) {
            #setting prerender as a variable forces DNS resolution since nginx caches IPs and doesnt play well with load balancing
            set $prerender "service.prerender.io";
            rewrite .* /$scheme://$host$request_uri? break;
            proxy_pass http://$prerender;
        }
        if ($prerender = 0) {
            rewrite .* /index.html break;
            proxy_pass      YOUR_IP_ADDRESS;
        }
    }