Serve Laravel application from nginx /location block (virtual host)

I am trying to serve laravel from a /location block in a Ubuntu nginx virtual host configuration. I have the laravel application installed and working fine when accessed directly but the nginx location block seems like not doing what it is expected to do.

This works : https://www.madol.example.com/horizontal-laravel/public/index.php

This doesn't (403): https://www.madol.example.com/horizontal-laravel/

Note: Real address omitted.

Here is the relevant code from my config file-

server {

     root /var/www/madol.example.com;
     index index.php index.html;

     server_name madol.example.com www.madol.example.com;

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

     location ~ \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
            include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
     }

     **# Something wrong here?**
     location /horizontal-laravel {
           try_files $uri $uri/ /horizontal-laravel/public/index.php;
     }

     location ~*  \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|svg|ico|css|js)$ {
            expires 7d;
}

     listen [::]:443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
     listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
     ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/madol.madcoderz.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
     ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/madol.madcoderz.com/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
     include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
     ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
}

server {
     if ($host = www.madol.example.com) {
            return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
     } # managed by Certbot

     if ($host = madol.example.com) {
            return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
     } # managed by Certbot


     listen 80;
     listen [::]:80;
     server_name madol.example.com www.madol.example.com;
     return 404;
} # managed by Certbot

Is there any other config issues apart from this in the code?

via Chebli Mohamed