Nginx 403 error: directory index of [folder] is forbidden

I have 3 domain names and am trying to host all 3 sites on one server (a Digital Ocean droplet) using Nginx.

mysite1.name mysite2.name mysite3.name

Only 1 of them works. The other two result in 403 errors (in the same way).

In my nginx error log, I see: [error] 13108#0: *1 directory index of "/usr/share/nginx/mysite2.name/live/" is forbidden.

My sites-enabled config is:

server {
        server_name www.mysite2.name;
        return 301 $scheme://mysite2.name$request_uri;
}
server {
        server_name     mysite2.name;

        root /usr/share/nginx/mysite2.name/live/;
        index index.html index.htm index.php;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html index.php;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                include fastcgi_params;
        }
}

All 3 sites have nearly identical config files.

Each site's files are in folders like /usr/share/nginx/mysite1.name/someFolder, and then /usr/share/nginx/mysite1.name/live is a symlink to that. (Same for mysite2 and mysite3.)

I've looked at Nginx 403 forbidden for all files but that didn't help.

Any ideas on what might be wrong?

Here is the config that works:

server {
    server_name www.mysite2.name;
    return 301 $scheme://mysite2.name$request_uri;
}
server {
    #This config is based on https://github.com/daylerees/laravel-website-configs/blob/6db24701073dbe34d2d58fea3a3c6b3c0cd5685b/nginx.conf
    server_name mysite2.name;

     # The location of our project's public directory.
    root /usr/share/nginx/mysite2/live/public/;

     # Point index to the Laravel front controller.
    index           index.php;

    location / {
        # URLs to attempt, including pretty ones.
        try_files   $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    # Remove trailing slash to please routing system.
    if (!-d $request_filename) {
            rewrite     ^/(.+)/$ /$1 permanent;
    }

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
    #   # NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
    #   # With php5-fpm:
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param                   SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    }

}

Then the only output in the browser was a Laravel error: “Whoops, looks like something went wrong.”

Do NOT run chmod -R 777 app/storage (note). Making something world-writable is bad security.

chmod -R 755 app/storage works and is more secure.