Why does Nginx return a 403 even though all permissions are set properly?

Question

I have Nginx setup and displaying the test page properly. If I try to change the root path, I get a 403 Forbidden error, even though all permissions are identical. Additiona

Answer 1

I ran into the same problem:

• Checked nginx.conf to verify the user
• Permissions were set properly
• Made sure "x" right was set for the entire path

Did a restart from the command line (I'd been using Webmin all this time) and noticed this error:

 aed@aed:/var/www/test.local$ sudo service nginx restart
 * Restarting nginx nginx 
nginx: [warn] conflicting server name "test.local" on 0.0.0.0:80, ignored
nginx: [warn] conflicting server name "test.local" on 0.0.0.0:80, ignored

Apparently there was a duplicate definition and thus my attempt to access "test.local" failed.

Answer 2

Remember you need to allow other users to read the entire path. Also remember Dropbox will set 700 to its root directory. So chmod 755 ~/Dropbox solved my problem.

Answer 3

this solved the same problem:

restart Nginx and try again. If it fails, check again the logs. This worked for me