Why does Laravel + NGINX return files with a 404 response code?

Question

Nginx

I decided to test the "Filament" admin panel for Laravel, but something doesn't work, because when requesting css - js files that are given through AssetsController, they come with a 404 response, while the content itself comes through if checked through the inspector. But, if you run it all on Apache, then everything works fine!

I use Open Server 5.3.8, PHP 8.0, Nginx 1.19, Laravel 8.4

nginx vhost config

# ----------------------------
# Host config
# ----------------------------

server {

listen                        %ip%:%httpport%;
listen                        %ip%:%httpsport% ssl http2;

server_name                   %host% %aliases%;
root                          '%hostdir%/public';
limit_conn                    addr 64;
autoindex                     off;
index                         index.php index.html index.htm;

ssl_certificate               '%sprogdir%/userdata/config/cert_files/server.crt';
ssl_certificate_key           '%sprogdir%/userdata/config/cert_files/server.key';
# ssl_trusted_certificate     '';

# Force HTTPS
# add_header Strict-Transport-Security 'max-age=2592000' always;
# if ($scheme ~* ^(?!https).*$) {
#    return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
# }

# Force www.site.com => site.com
# if ($host ~* ^www\.(.+)$) {
#    return 301 $scheme://$1$request_uri;
# }

# Disable access to backup/config/command/log files
# if ($uri ~* ^.+\.(?:bak|co?nf|in[ci]|log|orig|sh|sql|tar|sql|t?gz|cmd|bat)$) {
#    return 404;
# }

# Disable access to hidden files/folders
if ($uri ~* /\.(?!well-known)) {
    return 404;
}

# Disable MIME sniffing
add_header X-Content-Type-Options 'nosniff' always;

location ~* ^.+\.(?:css(\.map)?|js(\.map)?|jpe?g|png|gif|ico|cur|heic|webp|tiff?|mp3|m4a|aac|ogg|midi?|wav|mp4|mov|webm|mpe?g|avi|ogv|flv|wmv|svgz?|ttf|ttc|otf|eot|woff2?)$ {
        expires 1d;
        access_log off;
}

location / {
    # Force index.php routing (if not found)
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;

    # Force index.php routing (all requests)
    # rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 last;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files      $fastcgi_script_name =404;

        # limit_conn   addr 16;
        # limit_req    zone=flood        burst=32 nodelay;

        # add_header   X-Frame-Options   'SAMEORIGIN' always;
        # add_header   Referrer-Policy   'no-referrer-when-downgrade' always;

        # CSP syntax: <host-source> <scheme-source>(http: https: data: mediastream: blob: filesystem:) 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' 'none'
        # Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only (report-uri https://site.com/csp/)
        # add_header   Content-Security-Policy  "default-src 'self'; connect-src 'self'; font-src 'self'; frame-src 'self'; img-src 'self'; manifest-src 'self'; media-src 'self'; object-src 'self'; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; base-uri 'none'; form-action 'self'; frame-ancestors 'self'; upgrade-insecure-requests" always;

        fastcgi_pass   backend;
        include        '%sprogdir%/userdata/config/nginx_fastcgi_params.txt';
    }
}

# Service configuration (do not edit!)
# ----------------------------
location /openserver/ {
    root      '%sprogdir%/modules/system/html';
    autoindex off;
    index     index.php index.html index.htm;

    %allow%allow all;
    allow 127.0.0.0/8;
    allow ::1/128;
    allow %ips%;
    deny all;

    location ~* ^/openserver/.+\.(?:css(\.map)?|js(\.map)?|jpe?g|png|gif|ico|cur|heic|webp|tiff?|mp3|m4a|aac|ogg|midi?|wav|mp4|mov|webm|mpe?g|avi|ogv|flv|wmv|svgz?|ttf|ttc|otf|eot|woff2?)$ {
        expires 1d;
        access_log off;
    }

    location /openserver/server-status {
        stub_status on;
    }

    location ~ ^/openserver/.*\.php$ {
        try_files      $fastcgi_script_name =404;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_pass   backend;
        include        '%sprogdir%/userdata/config/nginx_fastcgi_params.txt';
    }
}
# End service configuration
# ----------------------------

}
# ----------------------------
# End host config
# ----------------------------

Answer 1

No one answered, but the problem was in this piece of the config:

location ~* ^.+\.(?:css(\.map)?|js(\.map)?|jpe?g|png|gif|ico|cur|heic|webp|tiff?|mp3|m4a|aac|ogg|midi?|wav|mp4|mov|webm|mpe?g|avi|ogv|flv|wmv|svgz?|ttf|ttc|otf|eot|woff2?)$ {
        expires 1d;
        access_log off;
}

for some reason, in the presence of this piece of the config, nginx spat with a 404 error, since the file was given through the controller and did not physically exist at the given path. It's strange why, if there was no file in a specific path, the server did not transfer control to the root index.php, as it was specified in "try_files"? Fortunately, by commenting out this piece of code, everything worked!