Laravel 500 error when using with nginx - php

Question

I have tried a lot of configuration settings for nginx to work with laravel but none of them do. I keep getting a 500 error on my webpage.
example.com is currently unable to handle this request.
server {
listen _:80;
server_name example.com;
root "C:\Users\Administrator\Google Drive\projects\laravel";
index index.php index.html;
log_not_found off;
charset utf-8;
access_log logs/cdn.example.com-access.log ;
location ~ /\. {deny all;}
location ~ \.css {
add_header Content-Type text/css;
}
location ~ \.js {
add_header Content-Type application/x-javascript;
}
location / {
include mime.types;
}
location = /favicon.ico {
}
location = /robots.txt {
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9054;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
I am pretty brand new to laravel and sort of new to nginx, I have all my laravel files in the document root that I just moved from my http://localhost:8000 development server. How can I make it live and make it work with nginx?

Answer 1

I can see wrong configuration in your post. You need to properly setup you web server. You should set public directory as root directory, set write permissions on a storage folder.
So, change this:
root "C:\Users\Administrator\Google Drive\projects\laravel";
To this:
root "C:\Users\Administrator\Google Drive\projects\laravel\public";
And restart your web server.