How to fix 403 Forbidden nginx/1.16.1 - laravel

Question

I am trying to run a Larevel project on this Nginx server. When I access project/public file via the web browser I get
403 Forbidden
nginx/1.16.1
Inside my public file, files look like this
How can I fix this?
PS: Just for the curiosity I renamed index.php file to index.html and accessed project/public via web browser. Then it shows me the code instead of giving 403 Error.
Here is the Nginx conf file.
user daemon daemon;
worker_processes auto;
error_log "/opt/bitnami/nginx/logs/error.log";
pid "/opt/bitnami/nginx/logs/nginx.pid";
events {
use epoll;
worker_connections 1024;
multi_accept on;
}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
client_body_temp_path "/opt/bitnami/nginx/tmp/client_body" 1 2;
proxy_temp_path "/opt/bitnami/nginx/tmp/proxy" 1 2;
fastcgi_temp_path "/opt/bitnami/nginx/tmp/fastcgi" 1 2;
scgi_temp_path "/opt/bitnami/nginx/tmp/scgi" 1 2;
uwsgi_temp_path "/opt/bitnami/nginx/tmp/uwsgi" 1 2;
access_log "/opt/bitnami/nginx/logs/access.log";
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
client_max_body_size 80M;
gzip on;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_comp_level 2;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_types text/plain
text/xml
text/css
text/javascript
application/json
application/javascript
application/x-javascript
application/ecmascript
application/xml
application/rss+xml
application/atom+xml
application/rdf+xml
application/xml+rss
application/xhtml+xml
application/x-font-ttf
application/x-font-opentype
application/vnd.ms-fontobject
image/svg+xml
image/x-icon
application/atom_xml;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
add_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
gzip on;
gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_comp_level 2;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_types text/plain
text/xml
text/css
text/javascript
application/json
application/javascript
application/x-javascript
application/ecmascript
application/xml
application/rss+xml
application/atom+xml
application/rdf+xml
application/xml+rss
application/xhtml+xml
application/x-font-ttf
application/x-font-opentype
application/vnd.ms-fontobject
image/svg+xml
image/x-icon
application/atom_xml;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
add_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_ciphers ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:ECDH+AES128:DH+AES:RSA+AESGCM:RSA+AES:!aNULL:!MD5:!DSS;
include "/opt/bitnami/nginx/conf/bitnami/bitnami.conf";
}
This is the nginx.conf.default file
#user nobody;
worker_processes 1;
#error_log logs/error.log;
#error_log logs/error.log notice;
#error_log logs/error.log info;
#pid logs/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
#log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
# '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
# '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
#access_log logs/access.log main;
sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;
#keepalive_timeout 0;
keepalive_timeout 65;
#gzip on;
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
#charset koi8-r;
#access_log logs/host.access.log main;
location / {
root html;
index index.html index.htm;
}
#error_page 404 /404.html;
# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
#
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root html;
}
# proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80
location ~ \.php$ {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1;
}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
location ~ \.php$ {
root html;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /scripts$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
#location ~ /\.ht {
# deny all;
#}
}
# another virtual host using mix of IP-, name-, and port-based configuration
#
#server {
# listen 8000;
# listen somename:8080;
# server_name somename alias another.alias;
# location / {
# root html;
# index index.html index.htm;
# }
#}
# HTTPS server
#
#server {
# listen 443 ssl;
# server_name localhost;
# ssl_certificate cert.pem;
# ssl_certificate_key cert.key;
# ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:1m;
# ssl_session_timeout 5m;
# ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
# ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
# location / {
# root html;
# index index.html index.htm;
# }
#}
}

Answer 1

You're declaring to pass .php files to Apache, then you're declaring to use a fastcgi service on 127.0.0.1:9000:
# proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80
location ~ \.php$ {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1;
}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
location ~ \.php$ {
root html;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /scripts$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
First, you probably want to remove the Apache reference. Then you need to check your fastcgi backend configuration, as your nginx are "passing" all the php request to it.
You're declaring also fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /scripts$fastcgi_script_name; and this mean that your php scripts are searched in /scripts folder. Is this right? If you want to keep your PHP files in html folder you nedd to change this line with fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $fastcgi_script_name;. Check also what's inside file fastcgi_params, as this file is included and so you're loading pieces of configuration from it.
I suppose you're using php-fpm, I can suggest also to change the configuration in order to use a socket file instead of a TCP connection:
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
And change listen = 127.0.0.1:9000 with listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock in your php-fpm configuration.