Here is the config that works:
server {
server_name www.mysite2.name;
return 301 $scheme://mysite2.name$request_uri;
}
server {
#This config is based on https://github.com/daylerees/laravel-website-configs/blob/6db24701073dbe34d2d58fea3a3c6b3c0cd5685b/nginx.conf
server_name mysite2.name;
# The location of our project's public directory.
root /usr/share/nginx/mysite2/live/public/;
# Point index to the Laravel front controller.
index index.php;
location / {
# URLs to attempt, including pretty ones.
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
# Remove trailing slash to please routing system.
if (!-d $request_filename) {
rewrite ^/(.+)/$ /$1 permanent;
}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
# # NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
# # With php5-fpm:
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
Then the only output in the browser was a Laravel error: “Whoops, looks like something went wrong.”
Do NOT run chmod -R 777 app/storage
(note). Making something world-writable is bad security.
chmod -R 755 app/storage
works and is more secure.