Nginx Configuration for PHP Application

server {
    server_name domain-name.com;

    root /var/www/project-name/public;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    # Handle requests for static files
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    # Pass PHP scripts to PHP-FPM running in the app container
    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
       deny all;
    }

}