403 Forbidden nginx/1.11.9 - Laravel 4

Question

I kept getting

403 Forbidden nginx/1.11.9

I already run : sudo composer update

I think I set up proper permissions.

-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root    149 Feb 24 03:45 .gitignore
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root     12 Feb 24 03:45 .gitattributes
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root    146 Feb 24 03:45 CONTRIBUTING.md
drwxrwxrwx 15 root root   4096 Feb 24 03:45 app
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root    567 Feb 24 03:45 phpunit.xml
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root   4096 Feb 24 03:45 bootstrap
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root   2452 Feb 24 03:45 artisan
drwxrwxrwx 19 root root   4096 Feb 24 03:45 public
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root    519 Feb 24 03:45 server.php
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root      0 Feb 24 03:45 satisfiable
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root   1599 Feb 24 03:45 readme.md
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root   4096 Feb 24 03:55 ..
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root    992 Feb 24 14:53 composer.json
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 116004 Feb 24 14:53 composer.lock
drwxrwxrwx  6 root root   4096 Feb 24 14:53 .
drwxrwxrwx 27 root root   4096 Feb 24 14:53 vendor

What else should I look into ?

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ps aux | grep nginx

root     12792  0.0  0.1 148960  1504 ?        Ss   Feb24   0:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on;
forge    12793  0.0  0.4 148960  4840 ?        S    Feb24   0:00 nginx: worker process
root     26625  0.0  0.1  12952  1032 pts/0    S+   15:10   0:00 grep --color=auto nginx

Answer 1

Try the following:

chown -R forge:forge /path/to/web/root

Answer 2

I had it as

root /home/forge/distributor-application/laravel;

I updated it to

root /home/forge/distributor-application/laravel/public;

Final look

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server;
    server_name default;
    root /home/forge/distributor-application/laravel/public;
    ...
}

My site is loading back now.