Fixing HTTP ERROR 500 (nginx) for every Laravel route

Oh, and I forgot to mention, but I was running php5 before, and am now running php7, just in case that makes a difference.

Try putting this in your conf at location:

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;

Then restart Nginx of course.

@usama.ashraf Thank you for the quick reply. I just tried changing that in my conf file, and it had no effect. I previously had

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;

which worked on my previous server. However, I just looked in my /var/log/nginx/error.log file, and found this:

2016/07/14 07:36:38 [error] 19569#19569: *65 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught UnexpectedValueException: The stream or file "/var/www/<domain.com>/production/releases/2$
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/<domain.com>/production/releases/20160714071609/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php(13762): Monolog\Handler\StreamHandler->write(Array)
#1 /var/www/<domain.com>/production/releases/20160714071609/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php(13522): Monolog\Handler\AbstractProcessingHandler->handle(Array)
#2 /var/www/<domain.com>/production/releases/20160714071609/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php(13620): Monolog\Logger->addRecord(400, Object(UnexpectedValueException), Array)
#3 /var/www/<domain.com>/production/releases/20160714071609/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php(13315): Monolog\Logger->error(Object(UnexpectedValueException), Array)
#4 /var/www/cos...
PHP message: PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught UnexpectedValueException: The stream or file "/var/www/<domain.com>/production/releases/20160714071609/storage/logs/laravel.log" could not be opened: failed to$
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/<domain.com>/production/releases/20160714071609/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php(13762): Monolog\Handler\StreamHandler->write(Array)
#1 /var/www/<domain.com>/production/releases/20160714071609/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php(13522): Monolog\Handler\AbstractProcessingHandler->handle(Array)
#2 /var/www/<domain.com>/production/releases/20160714071609/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php(13620): Monolog\Logger->addRecord(400, Object(Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalErrorException), Array)
#3 /var/www/<domain.com>/production/releases/20160714071609/bootstrap/cache/com

I'm just starting to investigate what this could be pointing to. Any immediate thoughts when you see this?

Update, but still not working:

sudo chown www-data:deploy <laravel_directory>/storage/logs/laravel.log

has brought back "Whoops, looks like something went wrong." errors. But still no actual errors to review. But I may be on to a fix.

php artisan cache:clear
php artisan clear-compiled
sudo chmod -R 777 storage
composer dump-autoload
php artisan optimize

@usama.ashraf Woohoo!!!!! Awesome. That got me a step closer. Now I'm trying to overcome an issue that seems to have a simple fix...but looks are deceiving:

RuntimeException in EncryptionServiceProvider.php line 45:
No supported encrypter found. The cipher and / or key length are invalid.

I've run

php artisan key:generate
sudo chown root:deploy -h .env

And the .env file was updated correctly. But it seems like it's able to read the .env file. Also, www-data is in the deploy group. Any thoughts?

Make sure you have all these:

• OpenSSL PHP Extension
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• Tokenizer PHP Extension

Woohoo!!! And @usama.ashraf shoots and scores! Laravel is working properly now. Thank you so much for the quick turnaround and help. I actually made you a fun meme, and then realized that the image embedding is no longer available on these threads. :(

Here's the final code that got everything working:

sudo gpasswd -a www-data deploy
sudo chown www-data:deploy <laravel_directory>/storage/logs/laravel.log
sudo chown root:deploy -h <laravel_directory>/.env
sudo chown www-data:deploy -R <laravel_directory>/bootstrap

php artisan key:generate
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan clear-compiled

sudo chmod -R 777 <laravel_directory>/storage
sudo chmod -R 775 <laravel_directory>/bootstrap

composer dump-autoload
php artisan optimize

sudo apt-get install php-tokenizer
sudo apt-get install php-mbstring
sudo apt-get install php-openssl
sudo systemctl restart php7.0-fpm

Then.... magic!

Happy to help.