Here's a quick tutorial on how to setup Nginx with PHP support. The key? The installation of fastCGI, aka PHP-FPM, so Nginx can serve PHP files to clients.

This brief tutorial focuses on FTP-based file uploads using the PHP-FTP protocol to upload in a two-step process: from your local disk to a Web server and then to an FTP server.

Do you need to find a Spring Boot file upload that uses Ajax and works with Spring MVC web apps? This example uses HTML5 file input fields and a pure JavaScript Ajax call to accomplish the task.