Nginx virtual host config for Laravel app with PHP 7.4

webapp.conf

log_format custom '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] '
          '"$request" $status $body_bytes_sent $request_time '
          '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent"';


server {
    listen 80;
    server_name _;

    root /var/www/html/public;

    add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
    add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";

    charset utf-8;
    client_max_body_size 20M;

    index index.php;
    error_page 404 /index.php;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log custom;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
    }

    location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
        deny all;
    }
    
    ##
    # Cache Policy
    ##
    location ~* \.(png|jpg|jpeg|gif|svg|ico)$ {
        expires 365d;
        add_header Cache-Control "public, no-transform";
    }

    location ~* \.(js|css|pdf|html)$ {
        expires 30d;
        add_header Cache-Control "public, no-transform";
    }    
    
    ##
    # NGINX Status Page
    ##
    location /nginx_status {
        stub_status;
        allow 127.0.0.1;
        deny all;
        access_log off;
    }

    ##
    # Gzip
    ##
    gzip on;
    gzip_vary on;
    gzip_min_length 500;
    gzip_proxied expired no-cache no-store private auth;
    gzip_types 
        application/atom+xml
        application/geo+json
        application/javascript
        application/x-javascript
        application/json
        application/ld+json
        application/manifest+json
        application/rdf+xml
        application/rss+xml
        application/xhtml+xml
        application/xml
        font/eot
        font/otf
        font/ttf
        font/opentype
        image/svg+xml
        image/x-icon
        text/css
        text/javascript
        text/plain
        text/xml;
    gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.";
}

log_format was moved outside the server group to fix a config error.

nginx: [emerg] "log_format" directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default:21
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed