I developed an app in Laravel that uses Google authentication, it works perfectly on my localhost. When I deployed it in my nginx server (ubuntu 24.04) I get the Google login correctly and it proceeds to my main page as expected. But after that, no route is accessible. All of them throw me a 404. I’ve been googling it for ages but I can’t for the life of me find the solution for this.

EDIT: The 404 comes from Laravel, not nginx. The weird part is if I try php artisan route:list on the ser the routes are indeed missing but on the localhost they all show. The code is pretty much the same.

Here’s is my app conf file:

server {
    server_name partituras-cmcgb.duckdns.org;
    root /var/www/html/partviewer/public;

    index index.php index.html index.htm;

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

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.3-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }

    error_log /var/log/nginx/partviewer-error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/partviewer-access.log;

    listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/partituras-cmcgb.duckdns.org/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/partituras-cmcgb.duckdns.org/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
    include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
    ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot

}
server {
    if ($host = partituras-cmcgb.duckdns.org) {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    } # managed by Certbot


    listen 80;
    server_name partituras-cmcgb.duckdns.org;
    return 404; # managed by Certbot


}
  • @just_another_person
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    47 days ago

    You’re probably going to need logs to rule out any permissions errors or the like.

  • @[email protected]
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    27 days ago

    Does the uid you are using to run nginx have permissions to read the root folder (defined above as /var/www/html/partviewer/public , not the actual linux root) and below?

    • @exception4289
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      17 days ago

      Yeah, sounds like a permissions error.

  • autokludge
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    16 days ago

    Could it be a route cache thing? may be worth trying artisan route:clear followed by artisan route:cache

  • Matt The Horwood
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    17 days ago

    could you replace try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string; with try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$is_args$args

    That might work

    • @spirinolasOP
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      17 days ago

      It was the first “solution” on google. Didn’t work.

        • @spirinolasOP
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          7 days ago

          The correct URL appears in the browser but the page shows a 404. According to the logs they don’t exist…but they’re there…

  • Responsabilidade
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    17 days ago

    I’m not sure, but looks like you’re denying all .htaccess files. Laravel depends on .htaccess to make things work properly

    Take a look on Laravel docs - Deployment to make sure your configs are right

    • @tahoe
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      97 days ago

      As far as I know only Apache uses .htaccess files, Nginx works a different way

        • @tahoe
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          27 days ago

          I was the same until like two months ago when I had to learn Nginx!

    • @spirinolasOP
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      17 days ago

      I already went through that. I wouldn’t post here without starting with the official documentation.

      • Responsabilidade
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        -17 days ago

        Why are you using that?

            location ~ /\.ht {
                deny all;
            }
        

        You’re denying the access to your root, which is the public/ folder and has the file .htaccess that has

        <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
            <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
                Options -MultiViews -Indexes
            </IfModule>
        
            RewriteEngine On
        
            # Handle Authorization Header
            RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
            RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
        
            # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
            RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]
        
            # Send Requests To Front Controller...
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
            RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
        </IfModule>
        

        This file handles the income requests and send to the front controller.

        • @fluckx
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          27 days ago

          The .htaccess file does nothing on nginx though.