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After trying Nginx I got confused between static and dynamic content. On Nginx site and other places it says Nginx is not used for dynamic content, But then I used Laravel's docs to configure my Laravel app to be served by Nginx. Laravel app is dynamic isn't it? Then what is the meaning of Nginx not being able to serve dynamic content
@ligonsker HTML = static, it doesn't change or update dynamically. PHP = dynamic, content can be changed, added to, modified before being sent from the server over the internet to the client's web browser.
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@fylzero Ok so this is the part which I actually understand, but then why nginx docs say it can't serve dynamic content but I am now serving my Laravel app using nginx? which is PHP
@Ligonsker Nginx is a proxy in front of other servers which are handling dynamic content.
It would probably just be easier to say it can handle dynamic content as a proxy.
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