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Laravel Forge with Digital Ocean: Internal Server Error 500

When I access one of the pages of my deployed site I get an internal server error. Nothing appears in my Laravel Forge deployment log to suggest something is wrong:

Thu Feb 13 17:46:39 UTC 2020
From github.com:greevesh/single_product_store
 * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
Already up to date.
Loading composer repositories with package information
Installing dependencies (including require-dev) from lock file
Nothing to install or update
Generating optimized autoload files
> Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump
> @php artisan package:discover --ansi
Discovered Package: barryvdh/laravel-debugbar
Discovered Package: cartalyst/stripe-laravel
Discovered Package: facade/ignition
Discovered Package: fideloper/proxy
Discovered Package: hardevine/shoppingcart
Discovered Package: laravel/tinker
Discovered Package: laravel/ui
Discovered Package: nesbot/carbon
Discovered Package: nunomaduro/collision
Discovered Package: sven/artisan-view
Package manifest generated successfully.
Restarting FPM...
Nothing to migrate.

I've checked all the nginx log files and there were no reported errors there either. I followed this tutorial perfectly as well: https://laracasts.com/series/learn-laravel-forge/episodes/3

Why on earth am I having this problem?

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Sinnbeck
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How about laravel.log in the storage directory?

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Thanks. Yep the errors are logged in there.

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