If you're running PHP/Laravel applications in production there's a good chance you're using some of these: CGI php-fpm nginx First, let's start with serving static content with nginx.
The error.log file contains only nginx specific errors, for example, if it cannot be started because the config is invalid.
It's a process manager so it's more than just a running program that can accept requests from nginx.
Inside the location there's an include: As we already discussed nginx comes with some predefined configurations that we can use.