Problem
The default Nginx web page shows for your project.
You have Nginx installed and have created a Laravel project, but the web page returned by your browser is the default Nginx web page.
Solution
Create a Nginx Virtual Host for your project.
laravel:/etc/nginx/sites-available$ sudo vi myapp
Have the contents of the file match what’s below.
listen 80;
server_name myapp.localhost.com;
root /home/vagrant/projects/myapp/public;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
charset utf-8;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
access_log off;
error_log /var/log/nginx/myapp-error.log error;
sendfile off;
client_max_body_size 100m;
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
fastcgi_buffer_size 16k;
fastcgi_buffers 4 16k;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
Save the file, then continue below.
laravel:/etc/nginx/sites-enabled$ sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/myapp
laravel:/etc/apache2/sites-enabled$ sudo service nginx restart
Fixing Permissions
If you’re running a virtual machine under Vagrant, you may want to change the user and group to avoid permission issues.
To do this:
laravel:/etc/php5/fpm/pool.d$ sudo vi www.conf
Change the user and group lines to your user and group.
group = vagrant
Save the file and restart the PHP FastCGI Process Manager.
Discussion
Nginx has many configuration options.
The configuration above is a basic configuration which works with Laravel. Nginx provides great power and flexibility with it’s configuration. Check out the Nginx Website for more information.
