Merge pull request #248318 from cephalin/cephalin-patch-1-1

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/87538

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

articles/app-service/configure-language-php.md

@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ For more information on how App Service runs and builds PHP apps in Linux, see [
 
 ## Customize start-up
 
-By default, the built-in PHP container runs the Apache server. At start-up, it runs `apache2ctl -D FOREGROUND"`. If you like, you can run a different command at start-up, by running the following command in the [Cloud Shell](https://shell.azure.com):
+If you want, you can run a custom command at the container start-up time, by running the following command in the [Cloud Shell](https://shell.azure.com):
 
 ```azurecli-interactive
 az webapp config set --resource-group <resource-group-name> --name <app-name> --startup-file "<custom-command>"
@@ -266,17 +266,30 @@ By default, Azure App Service points the root virtual application path (*/*) to
 
 The web framework of your choice may use a subdirectory as the site root. For example, [Laravel](https://laravel.com/), uses the `public/` subdirectory as the site root.
 
-The default PHP image for App Service uses Apache, and it doesn't let you customize the site root for your app. To work around this limitation, add an *.htaccess* file to your repository root with the following content:
+The default PHP image for App Service uses Nginx, and you change the site root by [configuring the Nginx server with the `root` directive](https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/web-server/serving-static-content/). This [example configuration file](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/laravel-tasks/blob/main/default) contains the following snippets that changes the `root` directive:
 
 ```
-<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
-    RewriteEngine on
-    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)
-    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /public/$1 [NC,L,QSA]
-</IfModule>
+server {
+    #proxy_cache cache;
+    #proxy_cache_valid 200 1s;
+    listen 8080;
+    listen [::]:8080;
+    root /home/site/wwwroot/public; # Changed for Laravel
+
+    location / {            
+        index  index.php index.html index.htm hostingstart.html;
+        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; # Changed for Laravel
+    }
+    ...
+```
+
+The default container uses the configuration file found at */etc/nginx/sites-available/default*. Keep in mind that any edit you make to this file is erased when the app restarts. To make a change that is effective across app restarts, [add a custom start-up command](#customize-start-up) like this example:
+
+```
+cp /home/site/wwwroot/default /etc/nginx/sites-available/default && service nginx reload
 ```
 
-If you would rather not use *.htaccess* rewrite, you can deploy your Laravel application with a [custom Docker image](quickstart-custom-container.md) instead.
+This command replaces the default Nginx configuration file with a file named *default* in your repository root and restarts Nginx.
 
 ::: zone-end