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zuntik

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Registered: 2017-08-11

Posts: 37

[solved] nginx on /home, forbidden error

Hi,

inside the http block of /etc/nginx/nginx.conf I have the following:

server {
        listen 8000;
        server_name localhost;
        location / {
            root /home/user/HomePage;
            index index.html;
        }
    }

The permissions to the HomePage directory are: rwxr-xr-x.

After restarting nginx, when I go to localhost on my browser I get the error: 403 Forbidden

With or without the "autoindex on;" option I get the same result.

Can anyone help?
Thanks

Last edited by zuntik (2017-08-22 19:55:45)

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: [solved] nginx on /home, forbidden error

Are the permissions on /home/user also set to allow the http user access?

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zuntik

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Registered: 2017-08-11

Posts: 37

Re: [solved] nginx on /home, forbidden error

Nice: the permissions set on /home/user are 700.
I can change them to 755, but is there a cleverer way to give nginx acess without giving "others" full read access? (By adding user to some group for example)

Thanks

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: [solved] nginx on /home, forbidden error

Don't use your home directory, use /var/www instead and give your user write permissions.

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No, it didn't "fix" anything. It just shifted the brokeness one space to the right. - jasonwryan
Closing -- for deletion; Banning -- for muppetry. - jasonwryan

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zuntik

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Registered: 2017-08-11

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Re: [solved] nginx on /home, forbidden error

Good enough, thanks.

jsoy9pQbYVNu5nfU

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Registered: 2013-04-19

Posts: 108

Re: [solved] nginx on /home, forbidden error

You can use a bind mount to /var/www if moving the data is not what you want.

ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 1,617

Re: [solved] nginx on /home, forbidden error

Mandatory suggestion: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User (i.e. run nginx as your user to get rid of permission problems and the need to edit configuration files as root or manage services as root).

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zuntik

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Registered: 2017-08-11

Posts: 37

Re: [solved] nginx on /home, forbidden error

Thanks 2ion,

mount --bind /home/user/HomePage /var/www

did the trick.

zuntik

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Registered: 2017-08-11

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Re: [solved] nginx on /home, forbidden error

Any tips on how to do that,  ayekat?

ayekat

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Re: [solved] nginx on /home, forbidden error

Well, uhm... read that article?

That being said, if you want your enabled services to start without you logging in, you may want to enable lingering for your user (see the loginctl man page for that). And when writing a service, install them to default.target (e.g. when you copy a system service, it usually installs to multi-user.target). But I'm (almost) sure that should be covered by that article as well. edit Yup, it is.

Last edited by ayekat (2017-08-24 18:38:12)

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