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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;
    }

}

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zachp • August 6, 2018
Accepted Answer

I figured out the solution. I posted it here.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51715871/lets-encypt-for-laravel-application-with-nginx-on-lemp-ubuntu-16-04/51716596#51716596

skemuel007bowendev • March 14, 2020
server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;

    root /var/www/html/site_folder_name/public;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

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

    charset utf-8;

    location / {
      try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
    }

    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/php7.2-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_na$
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
        deny all;
    }
}

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

    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem; $
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem$
    include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Cert$
    ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot

    root /var/www/html/site_folder_name/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;
    }
}

Had similar errors but was able to use the configuration as follows

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