How to set up Laravel and Nginx in Ubuntu 18.04
Follow the instructions in the Laravel website to install Laravel.
After you have installed, delete the file .env.example
Then make the directories /storage and /bootstrap/cache writable by typing this:
sudo chown -R 777 storage/
sudo chown -R 777 bootstrap/cache Create a file in /etc/nginx/sites-available directory. In my case I created on called larblog. Then copy this in that file:
server {
listen 80;
server_name blog.app;
root <path to the public folder>;
add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";
index index.html index.htm index.php;
charset utf-8;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
error_page 404 /index.php;
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
deny all;
}Put the path to the public folder of your Laravel project in root above. Put the url or ip address of the app in server_name.
Note that for the above you need to have php7.3-fpm installed. If you have php7.2 in your machine, then you need to install php7.2-fpm and replace the line in the above file like this
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock; ##Note the php7.2 here
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}## If it is Ubuntu 18.04
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php7.3-fpmType sudo nginx -t to check syntax of above nginx files you created and you should see this output if ok:
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successfulThen go to /etc/hosts and add the name of your app there next to 127.0.0.1. In my case it is blog.app
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 blog.app
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allroutersThen make a sym-link in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ like this:
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/larblog /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/Replace ‘larblog’ with the name of your laravel project
Then do
sudo systemctl reload nginxGo to Chrome and type your url there. In this case it is blog.app. You should see your site.
If you see ‘502 Bad Gateway’, check nginx logs like this:
sudo tail -30 /var/log/nginx/error.logI had this log in /var/log/nginx/error.log when I wrongly had php7.2 in the nginx file above
2020/03/13 23:21:11 [crit] 7111#7111: *10 connect() to unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock failed (2: No such file or directory) while connecting to upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: blog.app, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock:", host: "blog.app"
2020/03/13 23:21:12 [crit] 7111#7111: *10 connect() to unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock failed (2: No such file or directory) while connecting to upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: blog.app, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock:", host: "blog.app"
2020/03/13 23:21:13 [crit] 7111#7111: *10 connect() to unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock failed (2: No such file or directory) while connecting to upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: blog.app, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock:", host: "blog.app"I installed php7.3-fpm as mentioned above and replaced the nginx file with php7.3 as mentioned above and the ‘Bad Gateway’ error went away.
Happy Coding.