How to setup up Laravel with Nginx on AWS linux AMI - php

Question

I am trying to user laravel with nginx on AWS linux ami, however when I try to access my instance public ip i get file not found. Here is what i do
sudo amazon-linux-extras install nginx1
sudo service nginx start
After this step I am sure nginx is working because I can see nginx webpage. Now I am trying to install laravel
sudo amazon-linux-extras install php7.3
sudo yum install php-xml php-mbstring
sudo service php-fpm start
sudo service nginx restart
php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
sudo php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
composer global require laravel/installer
export PATH=$PATH:/home/ec2-user/.config/composer/vendor/bin/
laravel new test
sudo vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
server {
listen 80;
server_name _;
root /home/ec2-user/test/public;
add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";
index index.php;
charset utf-8;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
error_page 404 /index.php;
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/www.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
deny all;
}
}
sudo chown -R apache:apache storage/
sudo chown -R apache:apache bootstrap/cache
When I try to load my page i recieve file not found.

Answer 1

You can fix this issue in 2 way:
Providing a valid server name/ Domain
Fixing Nginx Default IP address
Provide valid server name
You need to fix the server name inside your Nginx configuration you have putten the server name as _. You need to put there a valid domain name. For example:
server_name example.com;
Then create an A record of the domain pointing to the IP adress. For example:
example.com A 123.123.123.123
Fix Nginx Default configuration
By default, if you install Nginx the server IP takes the files from /var/www/html so you can find this issue in 2 way:
Upload the files in the default path
Change the Nginx default path
Upload the files in the default path:
1st delete the html folder under /var/www/
2nd uload your laravel files inside /var/www/
3rd rename your laravel project public folder to html
Now restart nginx and visit your ip
Change Nginx Default Path
Open the default file
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
Find root /var/www/html and replace the /var/www/html with your path
Restart nginx and then visit your IP