Laravel Homestead: 403 forbidden on nginx

Question

I just installed Laravel Homestead according to their instructions. When I open http://homestead.app:8000 I get the nginx 403 forbidden HTTP Response.

I have tried s

Answer 1

Another reason for this response can be duplicating your routing with folders in public directory. For example you might have homestead.app/lists GET route and lists folder in your /public directory. This will cause the same 403 error (server will assume you are trying to access /public/lists directory instead of your /lists route).