403 Forbidden nginx (13) permission denied

To start with i’ve just freshly started off with linux, still wrapping my head around a lot of things. So i’m pretty sure its a simple fix i haven’t been able to figure out :)

This is Centos 6 on a vps

I’ve been trying to look for a solution on the net, but i haven’t had much luck I keep getting a forbidden error when i try to access my webpage, this is what the nginx error log shows:

/usr/Solder/TechnicSolder/public/index.php" is forbidden (13: Permission denied), client: 1.123.51.252, server: http://Example/URL.com, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", host: "http://Example/URL.com"

I’ve tried to add permission to the user group ‘nginx’ to read and write, via chmod, but it didnt work.

my nginx config.conf is as shown:

user              nginx;
worker_processes  4;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;
#error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log  notice;
#error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log  info;

pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    #gzip  on;
    
    # Load config files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory
    # The default server is in conf.d/default.conf
    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;

}

and the nginx defult.conf is:

#
# The default server
#
server {
    listen       80 default_server;
    server_name  http://Example/URL.com;

    #charset koi8-r;

    #access_log  logs/host.access.log  main;

    # Load configuration files for the default server block.
    include /etc/nginx/default.d/*.conf;

    location / {
        root   /usr/Solder/TechnicSolder/public;
        index  index.php index.html index.htm;
    }

    error_page  404              /404.html;
    location = /404.html {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
    }

    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
    #
    error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
        root   /usr/Solder/TechnicSolder/public;
    }

    # proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80
    #
    #location ~ \.php$ {
    #    proxy_pass   http://127.0.0.1;
    #}

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
    #
    location ~* \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass                    unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
            fastcgi_index                   index.php;
            fastcgi_split_path_info         ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
            include                         fastcgi_params;
            fastcgi_param PATH_INFO         $fastcgi_path_info;
    }

    # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
    # concurs with nginx's one
    #
    #location ~ /\.ht {
    #    deny  all;
    #}
}

the www.conf file has the group and user changed to nginx.

i believe i’ve followed all the steps correctly with the how to https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-lemp-stack-on-centos-6

thanks for your time :)