@OrdinaryJellyfish I started over fresh again with another AWS instance. I got a lot further and was able to reach my Flarum main page for setting up, but it is giving me warnign so I can not go any further until I fix some permission issues.
I try to chmod to fix the issues but it's not changing any permissions as you can see from my input and output here:
ubuntu@ip-172-31-80-211:/var/www$ sudo chmod 0775 /var/www/seekadventure.net
ubuntu@ip-172-31-80-211:/var/www$ ls -la
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Dec 14 05:32 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Feb 27 2018 ..
drwxr-xr-x 12 www-data www-data 4096 Feb 28 2018 laravel5.6
drwxrwxr-x 5 root root 4096 Dec 14 05:34 seekadventure.net
drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 8 13:32 utility
ubuntu@ip-172-31-80-211:/var/www$