aws ec2 lighsail nginx not pointing to laravel

Question

I'm very new to deploying on server. I followed this tutorial to deploy my laravel project from github and successfully completed all steps.

But when I point to my instance ip on browser, it loads nginx homepage rather than laravel.

check 1: sudo nano /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf

; Note: This value is mandatory.
listen = 127.0.0.1:8080

I suppose this means the instance should listen to laravel instead of any other?

What I suspect is, sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/myapp.site the myapp.site is empty. It suppose to create symlinks I suppose. How can I solve this issue?

This is what I see on browser for my instance ip: nginx welcome page

Answer 1

The contents of /etc/nginx/sites-available/myapp.site should contain the value of this file according to this tutorial.

Once it contains these contents perform the following actions:

• sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/myapp.site /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/myapp.site
• sudo service nginx restart

Assuming the remaining parts of the tutorial are followed you should now be able to see your site.