Nginx on Debian 7 not displaying web pages

Posted August 29, 2014

Hi,

I have just set up a debian 7 droplet with nginx and PHP installed. When I visited the IP for the server it displayed the default web page “welcome to nginx”. I used “sudo nano” add some HTML to this file just to check I was reading the correct file.

After saving the page will no longer display. Is there an issue with the file format after save?

Any thoughts gratefully received!

Thanks

ben721135

Mark Findlay • August 29, 2014

Can nginx read the files?

As Root:

chmod 0755 -R /path/to/html/folder

Try letting nginx user own the files

chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/html/folder

Roemer • August 29, 2014

Try restarting nginx:

service nginx restart

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Jon H • August 29, 2014

Could be owner of the file, file permissions, etc… When you say won’t display, is there server error or just blank white page? You could check the nignx error log.