403 Forbidden on nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu) - Laravel

Question

I keep getting 403 Forbidden

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My settings:

/etc/nginx/sites-available/default

default

server {
        listen   80;


        root home/laravel-app/;

        index index.php index.html index.htm;

        server_name example.com;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
        }

        error_page 404 /404.html;

        error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
        location = /50x.html {
              root /usr/share/nginx/www;
        }

        # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on the php-fpm socket
        location ~ \.php$ {
                try_files $uri =404;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                include fastcgi_params;

        }

}

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Update

I followed this instruction : here

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Any hints/suggestions on this will be a huge help !

Answer 1

You need to specify an absolute path for your root directive. Nginx uses the directory set at compile time using the --prefix switch. By default this is /usr/local/nginx.

What this means is that your root, which is currently set to root home/laravel-app/ causes nginx to look for files at /usr/local/nginx/home/laravel-app/ which presumably isn't where your files are.

If you set your root directive to an absolute path such as /var/www/laravel-app/public/ nginx will find the files.

Similarly you'll note that I added /public/ to the path above. This is because Laravel stores it's index.php file there. If you were to just point at /laravel-app/ there's no index file and it'd give you a 403.