I installed nginx as root, now I can't get permissions right to run as another user
As the title says, I have a server where nginx was originally installed by the root user. I now want to run nginx as a non-root user, a new user that I added to both the sudo the www-data groups.
When I try to run nginx from this new user, I get the following message:
nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: open() "/var/log/nginx/error.log" failed (13: Permission denied)
2016/08/09 22:07:52 [warn] 17609#0: the "user" directive makes sense only if the master process runs with super-user privileges, ignored in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:1
2016/08/09 22:07:52 [emerg] 17609#0: open() "/var/log/nginx/access.log" failed (13: Permission denied)
I'm confused why this is an issue—I changed the owner and group of /var/log/nginx/ to www-data. The nginx master process user is root, which I believe is correct, and the sub-processes are running (or trying to run) as www-data. The file permissions for error.log and 'access.log` are 755. What am I missing?
Hi! Can you post the output of the following command?
Thanks for the suggestion. Here's what I see after running that command:
drwxrw-rw- 2 www-data www-data 4.0K Aug 8 12:15 .drwxrwxr-x 11 root syslog 4.0K Aug 10 06:31 ..
-rwxrw-rw- 1 www-data www-data 7.6K Aug 10 12:55 access.log
-rwxrw-rw- 1 www-data www-data 3.9K Aug 9 22:01 error.log