Deploying simple Laravel Application in AWS with Nginx

1. Getting server ready

sudo apt-get update
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nginx
sudo apt-get install php7.2 php7.2-mysql php7.2-fpm php7.2-xml php7.2-gd php7.2-opcache php7.2-mbstring
sudo apt install zip unzip php7.2-zip

#composer 
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

2. Geting Laravel up & running

sudo composer create-project laravel/laravel tutorial --prefer-dist
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data tutorial/
sudo chmod -R 775 tutorial/


#cd /etc/nginx/sites-available
#sudo nano tutorial.conf
#cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled
#sudo rm -rf default
#sudo ln -s ../sites-available/tutorial.conf .
#sudo nginx -t
#sudo service nginx restart

3. etc nginx sites-available tutorial.conf

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

    root /var/www/test/public;

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

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        # With php-fpm (or other unix sockets);
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
        # With php-fpm (or other unix sockets);
    }
}