After restarting the nginx service following this guide: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-do-i-put-up-a-simple-static-website . my server is now showing forbidden on the homepage (only page made so far)
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Hello,
One of the most common causes of the “403 Forbidden” error is not having a correctly set up index file.
If you have a static site you should add something like this to your server block:
index index.html index.htm index.php;
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby
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