I’m tearing my hair out now as this should be such an easy fix but it’s not.

I’ve seen loads of questions relating this but I can’t find a definitive answer.

I’ve just configured a Ubunutu VPS with php8.3 and Nginx and everything is working perfectly. I created a phpinfo() page and could see that working.

I then installed Laravel and created a server block but I’m getting the following error in my error.log:

directory index of /var/www/my-domain.com/public_html/” is forbidden

What is the correct way of setting the permissions so Nginx can display the page? Everything I’ve tried doesn’t work.

I’ve tried sudo chown -R root:www-data /var/www/ but that doesn’t work. I would have thought there is specific commands to run.

Can anyone please advise on what I’m doing wrong?