location /app {
            alias /path/to/folder/lara/public/;
            index index.php index.html index.htm;

                location ~ \.php$ {
                    include ./fastcgi.conf;
                    fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
                    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
                }

          try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}

        # block access to .htaccess files
        location ~ /\.ht {
          deny all;
        }