"sudo: unable to resolve host ghost" + Directory Permissions 403 Error

Alright, so permissions of 701 is very weird. By default in Linux systems, file permissions are 644 and directories 755. But 701 basically says anyone can execute but only that user can do everything. Very insecure to have a file with a 7 in the permission when you don’t need it (or a 1 for that matter). Basically, how you want to go about this is change those permissions back to the defaults (when they were originally created, they might’ve not all been the Linux defaults).

Going from there, it depends on what your running. Could you give me an idea so I know what specific permissions sound good for it?

More information and a handy tool to learn octal “number” permissions.

@Dizazter

First up, just for the sake of keeping “junk” out of your /etc/hosts file, the entries below can be safely removed as they do nothing at all :-).

127.0.0.1 Dizaztrous Dizaztrous

::1 Dizaztrous Dizaztrous

If you’re not specifically using IPv6, you can remove the rest of the IPv6 too:

::1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

In fact, the only thing you really need to define in that file is your hostname with and without your domain attached and localhost, like so:

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.1.1       hostname.fromthehiptoss.com hostname

If you’re not sure what your hostname is, you can execute the following from the CLI:

hostname

… and it’ll output what you currently have it set as. If you’d like to change it, you can use the same command and pass a new hostname to it.

hostname newhostname.fromthehiptoss.com

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With that out of the way, directories should be chmod 755 and files chmod 644, though setting up these permissions won’t do any good unless your directories are owned by the user who’s executing the scripts (read: files) from said directories.

Note: For the next bit, I’d recommend heading over to PasteBin and copying the requested information to a new PasteBin for each, just to keep things organized :-).

Browse to your home directory, execute the command below and save it to a PasteBin. This command simply lists the files and directories in the directory you run it from and tells us who owns them and what their permissions are set to.

ls -al

Next, if you would, please post the contents of:

/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

and

/etc/nginx/sites-available/yoursite.conf

Where yoursite.conf is the configuration file for your website (note: you may use another directory to store configuration files – this is the default, so please feel free to substitute as needed :-) ).

I’m mainly looking to see who you’re running NGINX as and to also make sure everything in both the NGINX configuration file and your website configuration file looks good so perhaps we can knock out two things at once :-).