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403 errors on Nginx server

Posted on April 9, 2019

Hello, I have installed ruby on rails on digital ocean with NGINX and Passanger. the site was working find but after trying to install free ssl, it goes full wrong. i was following this article and i made some mistakes. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-nginx-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-18-04 and the site down with 403 forbidden errors.

How can i overcome this problem?

thank you



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Hello,

I just came across this question.

What I could suggest is following the steps from this answer here on how to troubleshoot common Nginx problems:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-troubleshoot-common-nginx-issues-on-linux-server

Regards, Bobby

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