laravel_php_server_setup_checklist.txt

1. Install web server
2. Edit configuration: setup access and error logs, http portion and server portion. Root should be /public
3. Setup php-fpm (nginx), fastcgi (IIS), install package if needed and setup bindings in web server config file
4. Configure url parameters, eg. nginx: 

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}

5. Make sure permissions to /public are: directory (755) and file (644), if changes are needed, use chmod
6. Make user running nginx owner of the directory and files, if changes are needed, use chown -R
7. Make sure storage and bootstrap/cache have the same permissions mentioned in step 4.
8. That's it!!!