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.

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Answer 1

In my case, for testing purposes I had only phpinfo.php file in the public directory. The server kept showing 403 errors until I placed a file named index.php into the public folder!