Lumen + Nginx + Ubuntu

LumenNginxUbuntu

cd ~
sudo apt-get update

1. Install PHP and Nginx

#apt-get install software-properties-common

sudo apt-get -y install nginx php7.0 php7.0-fpm php7.0-mbstring php7.0-xml git composer

2. Config Nginx

cat <<EOF > /etc/nginx/sites-available/lumen.com
server {
    listen 80;
    #listen [::]:80 ipv6only=on;

    root /var/www/lumen/public;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    server_name lumen;
    charset   utf-8;

    gzip on;
    gzip_vary on;
    gzip_disable "msie6";
    gzip_comp_level 6;
    gzip_min_length 1100;
    gzip_buffers 16 8k;
    gzip_proxied any;
    gzip_types
        text/plain
        text/css
        text/js
        text/xml
        text/javascript
        application/javascript
        application/x-javascript
        application/json
        application/xml
        application/xml+rss;

    location / {
        try_files \$uri \$uri/ /index.php?\$query_string;
    }

    location ~ \.php\$ {
        try_files \$uri /index.php =404;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)\$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME \$document_root\$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    location ~* \.(?:jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|cur|gz|svg|svgz|mp4|ogg|ogv|webm|htc|svg|woff|woff2|ttf)\$ {
      expires 1M;
      access_log off;
      add_header Cache-Control "public";
    }

    location ~* \.(?:css|js)\$ {
      expires 7d;
      access_log off;
      add_header Cache-Control "public";
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny  all;
    }

}
EOF

3. Fixing php-fpm

sudo nano /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini

Uncomment and set "cgi.fix_pathinfo=0"

4. A little more config...

export PATH=$PATH:~/.composer/vendor/bin/

sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart
sudo /etc/init.d/php7.0-fpm restart

sudo usermod -a -G www-data nginx

5. Creating project

sudo composer global require "laravel/lumen-installer"

cd /var/www/

sudo chown <your user name> /var/www/

sudo composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/lumen lumen

6. Fixing permissions

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/lumen
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/lumen/storage

7. Optional fixes

sudo nano /php/7.0/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
listen.mode = 0660

sudo chmod -R 775 storage 

Nginx error log:
tail -f /var/log/nginx/error.log