Laravel 403 forbidden error in Ubuntu LEMP stack - laravel

Question

I have installed laravel in the "/var/www" folder but I am getting 403 forbidden error, and folders in the "var/www" folder have a lock icon. How can i fix this problem ?
Settings like this:
# Don't use them in a production server
root /var/www/html;
# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name 192.168.1.6;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
# pass PHP scripts to FastCGI server
#
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
#
# # With php-fpm (or other unix sockets):
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
# # With php-cgi (or other tcp sockets):
# fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}

Answer 1

If your laravel installation is under /var/www/html then you will need to update your nginx conf file to root /var/www/html/public;. Your configuration file looks ok to me except the public part.
Laravel's index.php is located in the public folder.
# Don't use them in a production server
root /var/www/html/public; # This line.
# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name 192.168.1.6;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
# pass PHP scripts to FastCGI server
#
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
#
# # With php-fpm (or other unix sockets):
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
# # With php-cgi (or other tcp sockets):
# fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}