Laravel Valet project nginx.conf which serves remote upload files if they do not exist localy.

valet-80-nginx.conf

server {

  listen 80;
  server_name project.test www.project.test *.project.test;
  root /;
  charset utf-8;
  client_max_body_size 128M;

  location /41c270e4-5535-4daa-b23e-c269744c2f45/ {

    internal;
    alias /;
    try_files $uri $uri/;
  }

  location / {

    rewrite ^ "/Users/johndoe/.composer/vendor/laravel/valet/server.php" last;
  }

  access_log off;
  error_log "/Users/johndoe/.config/valet/Log/nginx-error.log";

  error_page 404 "/Users/johndoe/.composer/vendor/laravel/valet/server.php";

  set $production https://project.ch;
  set $rootFolder '/Users/johndoe/websites/project/public/';

  location ~ "^/wp-content/uploads/(.*)$" {

    expires 24h;
    log_not_found off;
    root $rootFolder;

    if (-f $request_filename) {

      break;
    }
    try_files $uri $uri/ @production;
  }

  location @production {

    resolver 8.8.8.8;
    proxy_pass $production/$uri;
  }

  location ~ \.php$ {

    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
    fastcgi_pass "unix:/Users/johndoe/.config/valet/valet.sock";
    fastcgi_index "/Users/johndoe/.composer/vendor/laravel/valet/server.php";
    include fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME "/Users/johndoe/.composer/vendor/laravel/valet/server.php";
  }

  location ~ /\.ht {

    deny all;
  }
}