title: 403 Forbidden on nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu) - Laravel
body: <p>I keep getting <code>403 Forbidden</code></p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pEXD5.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pEXD5.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
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  <p>My settings:</p>
  
  <p><code>/etc/nginx/sites-available/default</code></p>
  
  <p><strong>default</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>server {
          listen   80;
  
  
          root home/laravel-app/;
  
          index index.php index.html index.htm;
  
          server_name example.com;
  
          location / {
                  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
          }
  
          error_page 404 /404.html;
  
          error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
          location = /50x.html {
                root /usr/share/nginx/www;
          }
  
          # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on the php-fpm socket
          location ~ \.php$ {
                  try_files $uri =404;
                  fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                  fastcgi_index index.php;
                  fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                  include fastcgi_params;
  
          }
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
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  <p><strong>Update</strong></p>
  
  <p>I followed this instruction : <a href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-lemp-stack-on-ubuntu-12-04" rel="noreferrer">here</a> </p>
  
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  <p>Any hints/suggestions on this will be a huge help ! </p>