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403 Forbidden nginx ERROR SHOWING AFTER RESTART. PLEASE HELP

Posted April 26, 2017 57k views
NginxApacheUbuntu 16.04

Everything was working fine.. eventually i restarted the server to check something.. and now this error is showing all over the place. 138.197.92.156 domains also please help

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hansen April 26, 2017

Hi @geeber05
Run this command to show the last errors in Nginx:

tail -20 /var/log/nginx/error.log
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hansen April 26, 2017

@geeber05
Can you post your Nginx server block configuration?
Also make sure you actually have files in that directory ls -l /var/www/html

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geeber05 April 26, 2017

server {
listen 80 defaultserver;
listen [::]:80 defaultserver;

# SSL configuration
#
# listen 443 ssl default_server;
# listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
#
# Self signed certs generated by the ssl-cert package
# Don't use them in a production server!
# include snippets/snakeoil.conf;
#
# ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; # don’t use SSLv3 ref: POODLE
# ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
# ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

root /var/www/html;

# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

server_name _;

location / {
    # First attempt to serve request as file, then
    # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}

# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
#
#location ~ \.php$ {
#   include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
#
#   # With php5-cgi alone:
#   fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
#   # With php5-fpm:
#   fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
#}

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

}

Virtual Host configuration for example.com

You can move that to a different file under sites-available/ and symlink that

to sites-enabled/ to enable it.

server {

listen 80;

listen [::]:80;

server_name example.com;

root /var/www/example.com;

index index.html;

location / {

try_files $uri $uri/ =404;

}

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  • hansen April 26, 2017

    @geeber05
    Is there only one file? That’s the default configuration, which doesn’t do much. You need to replace that with a configuration, which has php-fpm and some WordPress adjustments.

    Have a look in /etc/nginx/sites-available/ - do you also only have one configuration file?

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    • geeber05 April 26, 2017

      I only have one file that is from etc/nginx/sites-available

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      • hansen April 26, 2017

        @geeber05 Okay, then you’ve lost your configuration.
        Here’s an example configuration that will work for WordPress - restart Nginx after changes

        server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server;

    root /var/www/html;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    server_name _;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}
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    • geeber05 April 26, 2017

      You should look at the following URL’s in order to grasp a solid understanding

      of Nginx configuration files in order to fully unleash the power of Nginx.

      http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls

      http://wiki.nginx.org/QuickStart

      http://wiki.nginx.org/Configuration

      Generally, you will want to move this file somewhere, and start with a clean

      file but keep this around for reference. Or just disable in sites-enabled.

      Please see /usr/share/doc/nginx-doc/examples/ for more detailed examples.

      Default server configuration

      server {
      listen 80 defaultserver;
      listen [::]:80 default      server;

      # SSL configuration
#
# listen 443 ssl default_server;
# listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
#
# Self signed certs generated by the ssl-cert package
# Don't use them in a production server!
# include snippets/snakeoil.conf;
#
# ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; # don’t use SSLv3 ref: POODLE
# ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
# ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

root /var/www/html;

# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

server_name _;

location / {
    # First attempt to serve request as file, then
    # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}

# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
#
#location ~ \.php$ {
#   include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
#
#   # With php5-cgi alone:
#   fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
#   # With php5-fpm:
#   fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
#}

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

      }

      Virtual Host configuration for example.com

      You can move that to a different file under sites-available/ and symlink that

      to sites-enabled/ to enable it.

      server {

      listen 80;

      listen [::]:80;

      server_name example.com;

      root /var/www/example.com;

      index index.html;

      location / {

      try_files $uri $uri/ =404;

      }

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