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Why are you using that?

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }

You’re denying the access to your root, which is the public/ folder and has the file .htaccess that has

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
        Options -MultiViews -Indexes
    </IfModule>

    RewriteEngine On

    # Handle Authorization Header
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

    # Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
    RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]

    # Send Requests To Front Controller...
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

This file handles the income requests and send to the front controller.

I’m not sure, but looks like you’re denying all .htaccess files. Laravel depends on .htaccess to make things work properly

Take a look on Laravel docs - Deployment to make sure your configs are right

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