Laravel Homestead: 403 forbidden on nginx

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).