Permission denied - nginx and uwsgi socket

Question

Well I am currently trying to get my django application served using nginx and uwsgi. I am currently using a virtual environment to which uwsgi is installed. However I am cu

Answer 1

uwsgi.ini

[uwsgi]
uid = yourusername
gid = www-data
chmod-socket = 664

Why? Because sometimes the app needs to read or write to the file system beyond what's accessible to the web server. I don't want to change a whole bunch of ownership and permissions just to accommodate each such situation. I'd rather have my application run as me and do what it needs to do. Setting the group as www-data and chmoding the socket to 664 allows for that group to write to it, thus providing the only necessary window of communication between the web server and the app.