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Nginx 403 forbidden

Posted on October 15, 2013

Hi,

I am setting up a server, the plan is to host multiple static sites via NGINX.

The first one I am trying to set up, is iuorvosszakerto.hu I have already configured the DNS, and have updated the domain, name servers are correct. In the control panel the domain points to the droplet.

I have set up the NGINX config as follows:

server { listen 80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and $ #listen [::]:80 default ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6

    root /var/www/iuorvosszakerto.hu/public_html;
    index index.html index.htm;

    server_name iuorvosszakerto.hu;

    location / {
            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
    }

    location /doc/ {
            alias /usr/share/doc/;
            autoindex on;
            allow 127.0.0.1;
            deny all;
    }

}

Have also created the symbolic link to the config in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

The file /var/www/iuorvosszakerto.hu/public_html/index.html exists and is a valid HTML file. The chmod for /var/www is 755.

Have restarted NGINX several times, without any luck.

However, when I open up iuovrosszakerto.hu in a browser, I get 403 - why? The logs in /var/log/nginx are empty.

Looking forward for any answers/suggestions.



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The answer here saved my life.

Basically, the nginx server won’t need to serve index files from a directory since routing to resources is handled by Rails, so removing the $uri/ bit was the key for me.

Hi, i had this problem, for me problem was about nginx config in /etc/nginx/sites-available My wrong was, I had defined some unnamed locations of files and folders. so I edited the location and problem begin solved.

I used the following commands during set up: <br>sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www <br>sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www <br> <br>Just did these again, but no change.

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