Laravel Homestead: 403 forbidden on nginx

Question

I just installed Laravel Homestead according to their instructions. When I open http://homestead.app:8000 I get the nginx 403 forbidden HTTP Response.

I have tried s

Answer 1

Change the config of Nginx

Put that line in 'location /' section:

try_files $uri $uri/public/index.php?$query_string;

If its not working then replace your 'public' with the folder name that content 'index.php',

That worked great with me using ServerPilot,

Good luck!.

Answer 2

Check nginx error in you vagrant box

vagrant ssh

sudo cat var/log/nginx/yoursite.tld-error.log

"*1 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Unable to open primary script: /home/vagrant/code/public/index.php (No such file or directory)" "

Change in Homestead.yaml

nano Homestead.yaml

to map: homestead.app to: /home/vagrant/code/Laravel/public

then..

vagrant reload --provision

Answer 3

Another reason for this response can be duplicating your routing with folders in public directory. For example you might have homestead.app/lists GET route and lists folder in your /public directory. This will cause the same 403 error (server will assume you are trying to access /public/lists directory instead of your /lists route).

Answer 4

I have been banging my head against the wall dealing with this very same problem, and I just solved it for my case.

I was sure I'd set up the yaml file correctly, but I kept getting the 403 error, and when experimenting with some routes I was getting "input file not specified".

My solution came from http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/homestead and it involved using the serve command. I wasn't adding any additional sites, just trying to anything to get the first site running.

SSH'ing into my vagrant box and using the command "serve my_app_name.app /home/vagrant/Code/path/to/public" did the job. Note that I had already put an entry into my hosts file for this app.

Hope this helps someone.

Answer 5

Access in your browser

homestead.app/public

Before installation of laravel/laravel with composer within /home/vagrant/Code/Laravel/public

Answer 6

I had the same problem and for me the cause was that in the Homestead.yaml file, I have incorrectly put this:

sites:
- map: homestead.app
  to: /home/vagrant/Code

Instead of the correct syntax:

sites:
- map: homestead.app
  to: /home/vagrant/Code/path/to/public