Laravel Homestead: 403 forbidden on nginx - laravel

Question

I just installed Laravel Homestead according to their instructions. When I open http://homestead.app:8000 I get the nginx 403 forbidden HTTP Response.
I have tried setting app/storage permissions to 755, but that didn't work, so I reloaded Vagrant. With no further result.
I also tried changing the nginx configuration, but with no success.

Answer 1

I had the same problem and for me the cause was that in the Homestead.yaml file, I have incorrectly put this:
sites:
- map: homestead.app
to: /home/vagrant/Code
Instead of the correct syntax:
sites:
- map: homestead.app
to: /home/vagrant/Code/path/to/public

Answer 2

Another reason for this response can be duplicating your routing with folders in public directory. For example you might have homestead.app/lists GET route and lists folder in your /public directory. This will cause the same 403 error (server will assume you are trying to access /public/lists directory instead of your /lists route).

Answer 3

OK, i got the answer to the question after few hours of searching and debugging.
The problem:
I've got GET route /admin
Also i've got /public/admin/ folder with assets inside.
And i've got 403 access denied from nginx cause of this duplication;
So, if you don't want to rename route or assets folder, all you need to do is replace
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
# ^^^^^
}
with this:
location / {
try_files $uri /index.php?$query_string;
}
If you could rename your route or assets folder without any refactor then you could do this without nginx config fixing.
Hope this will be helpful.

Answer 4

I have been banging my head against the wall dealing with this very same problem, and I just solved it for my case.
I was sure I'd set up the yaml file correctly, but I kept getting the 403 error, and when experimenting with some routes I was getting "input file not specified".
My solution came from http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/homestead and it involved using the serve command. I wasn't adding any additional sites, just trying to anything to get the first site running.
SSH'ing into my vagrant box and using the command "serve my_app_name.app /home/vagrant/Code/path/to/public" did the job. Note that I had already put an entry into my hosts file for this app.
Hope this helps someone.

Answer 5

For some people this may be as simple as having git cloned in an existing public folder, e.g:
- map: hello-world.dev
to: /home/vagrant/Code/Laravel/public/hello-world
The correct folder structure is:
- map: hello-world.dev
to: /home/vagrant/Code/hello-world/public
Another good note is ignoring the laravel docs on editing hosts file, using git shell, or cygwin (windows) to install vagrant hostsupdater, and simply adding entries for hosts and aliases to ~/.homestead/Homestead.yaml file.

Answer 6

I would suggest checking the nginx logs - use sudo tail /var/log/nginx/homestead.app-error.log

Answer 7

Here's the full solution steps:
run homestead edit
add /public to the end of your directory
sites:
- map: homestead.app
to: /full/path/to/the/laravel-app/public
run homestead halt && homestead up --provision

Answer 8

Change the config of Nginx
Put that line in 'location /' section:
try_files $uri $uri/public/index.php?$query_string;
If its not working then replace your 'public' with the folder name that content 'index.php',
That worked great with me using ServerPilot,
Good luck!.

Answer 9

In my case, for testing purposes I had only phpinfo.php file in the public directory. The server kept showing 403 errors until I placed a file named index.php into the public folder!

Answer 10

In your case, you are getting nginx 403 forbidden HTTP Response because of improper configuration of sites in Homestead.yaml,
if you configure it properly it should work.
How to solve the issue step by step:
1) Goto your vagrant box and create the laraval app
$vagrant ssh
$cd ~/code
$#lets create basic blog
$laravel new blog
Crafting application...
Loading composer repositories with package information
........
$cd blog
$ll
# You should be able to see public folder in this dir.
# this is the entry point for your application.
# this is your public dir: ~/code/blog/public
# more explicitly: /home/vagrant/code/blog/public
$exit # exit ssh
2) Update the Homestead.yaml with proper site info
- map: homestead.app
to: /home/vagrant/code/blog/public # should be same as in step1
3) Re-provision your vagrant
$vagrant reload --provision
You should be able to access it now using http://homestead.app
Thank you!

Answer 11

I ran into this when I tried manually creating my first site. #GregD's answer helped me discover the problem! Vagrant/Homestead/Laravel will typically get everything running smoothly on its own if you use the built-in features.
Homestead's configuration file comes preconfigured for one site, located in /Code/Laravel/. Some steps to get this test bed up and running:
Install Homestead (remember to set your hosts file)
vagrant up and connect to your virtual machine via ssh (Chrome Secure Shell is great if you don't have a terminal on your machine already)
Download and set up the PHAR package
cd ~/Code
laravel new Laravel.
Browse to http://homestead.app:8000
This will create your first site with appropriate permissions. You can model future sites after the permissions on this one, or just use the "sites" node of Homestead.yaml and laravel new <site> to make new sites in the future.

Answer 12

Access in your browser
homestead.app/public
Before installation of laravel/laravel with composer within /home/vagrant/Code/Laravel/public

Answer 13

Configuring Nginx Sites :
sites:
- map: homestead.test
to: /home/vagrant/project1/public

Answer 14

To fix, ssh into your homestead, then do :
nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/the-name-of-your-project.test
After that all you need to do is get rid of $uri/ that you will find in the location object , then do vagrant reload and error should be fixed.

Answer 15

My solution was to move the address in the host file to the bottom of the file. It happend to me twice.

Answer 16

Check nginx error in you vagrant box
vagrant ssh
sudo cat var/log/nginx/yoursite.tld-error.log
"*1 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Unable to open primary script: /home/vagrant/code/public/index.php (No such file or directory)" "
Change in Homestead.yaml
nano Homestead.yaml
to
map: homestead.app
to: /home/vagrant/code/Laravel/public
then..
vagrant reload --provision