Let's Encypt for Laravel Application with Nginx on LEMP Ubuntu 16.04

Hi everyone,

First time for everything here (DigitalOcean, Laravel, Github, etc). Sorry in advance for my ignorance.

I have successfully been able to deploy the Marketplacekit app on my Ubuntu 16.04 LEMP droplet.

I have been using a combination of these great tutorials from DigitalOcean.

(1) How To Deploy a Laravel Application with Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04 (2) How To Install Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP (LEMP stack) in Ubuntu 16.04

I am currently trying to install Let’s Encypt SSL certificates across my domain (Step 6 of tutorial (1)).

Originally after following step 6 I got these errors:

    include snippets/ssl-example.com.conf;
    include snippets/ssl-params.conf;

Another user had the same errors as the files did not exist using the tutorial method. So I tried to manually create the files using these steps.

It seems that the SSL is working properly, but now I am getting 404 Not Found error.

``` is as follows:

server { listen 80; listen [::]:80;

    # SSL configuration
    #
    # listen 443 ssl default_server;
    # listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
    #
    # Note: You should disable gzip for SSL traffic.
    # See: https://bugs.debian.org/773332
    #
    # Read up on ssl_ciphers to ensure a secure configuration.
    # See: https://bugs.debian.org/765782
    #
    # Self signed certs generated by the ssl-cert package
    # Don't use them in a production server!
    #
    # include snippets/snakeoil.conf;

    root /var/www/html/marketplacekit/public;

    # Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
    index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

    server_name example.com www.example.com;
    return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;


    location / {
            # First attempt to serve request as file, then
            # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }


    location ~ \.php$ {
            include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
            fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
            deny all;
    }



    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
    #
    #location ~ \.php$ {
    #       include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    #
    #       # With php7.0-cgi alone:
    #       fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
    #       # With php7.0-fpm:
    #       fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
    #}

    # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
    # concurs with nginx's one
    #
    #location ~ /\.ht {
    #       deny all;
    #}

}

server { listen 443 ssl http2; listen [::]:443 ssl http2;

    include snippets/ssl-example.com.conf;
    include snippets/ssl-params.conf;

    root /var/www/html/quickstart/public;

    index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

    server_name example.com www.example.com;

    location / {
            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
            include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
            fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
            deny all;
    }

    location ~ /.well-known {
            allow all;
    }

}