Nginx 403 error directory index of folder is forbidden

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I have 3 domain names and am trying to host all 3 sites on one server  a Digital Ocean droplet  using Nginx   mysite1 name mysite2 name mysite3 name  Only 1 of them works   The other two result in 403 errors  in the same way    In my nginx error log  I see   error  13108 0   1 directory index of   usr share nginx mysite2 name live   is forbidden   My sites-enabled config is   server           server name www mysite2 name          return 301  scheme   mysite2 name request uri    server           server name     mysite2 name           root  usr share nginx mysite2 name live           index index html index htm index php           location                     try files  uri  uri   index html index php                     location     php                    fastcgi split path info       php                         fastcgi pass unix  var run php5-fpm sock                  fastcgi index index php                  include fastcgi params                All 3 sites have nearly identical config files   Each site s files are in folders like  usr share nginx mysite1 name someFolder  and then  usr share nginx mysite1 name live is a symlink to that   Same for mysite2 and mysite3    I ve looked at Nginx 403 forbidden for all files but that didn t help    Any ideas on what might be wrong

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If you have directory indexing off  and is having this problem  it s probably because the try files you are using has a directory option   location       try files  uri  uri   index html index php                      that is the issue   Remove it and it should work   location       try files  uri  index html index php       Why this happens  TL DR  This is caused because nginx will try to index the directory  and be blocked by itself  Throwing the error mentioned by OP   try files  uri  uri  means  from the root directory  try the file pointed by the uri  if that does not exists  try a directory instead  hence the     When nginx access a directory  it tries to index it and return the list of files inside it to the browser client  however by default directory indexing is disabled  and so it returns the error  Nginx 403 error  directory index of  folder  is forbidden    Directory indexing is controlled by the autoindex option  https   nginx org en docs http ngx http autoindex module html

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In my case it was related to SELinux in CentOS 7  You can check if it is enabled running the following command  cat  etc selinux config  Sample outputs  SELINUX enforcing SELINUXTYPE targeted  Disabling SELinux permanently Edit the  etc selinux config file  run  sudo vi  etc selinux config  Set SELINUX to disabled  SELINUX disabled  Save and close the file in vi vim  Reboot the Linux system  sudo reboot

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For me the problem was that any routes other than the base route were working  adding this line fixed my problem   index           index php    Full thing   server        server name example dev      root  var www example public      index           index php       location             try files  uri  uri   index php  query string             location     php            include  etc nginx fastcgi params          fastcgi pass  127 0 0 1 9000          fastcgi index index php          fastcgi param SCRIPT FILENAME  document root fastcgi script name

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I resolved my problem  if i configure like follow   location    login       index  login2 html      It ll show the 403 error    error  4212 2916   2 directory index of  D  path to login   is forbidden   I ve tried autoindex on  but not working  If i change my configure like this  it works   location    login        index  login2 html      I think the exact matching  if it s a path should be a directory

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I had the same problem  the logfile showed me this error   2016 03 30 14 35 51  error  11915 0   3 directory index of  path scripts viewerjs   is forbidden  client  IP IP IP IP      server  domain com  request   GET  scripts viewerjs  HTTP 1 1   host   domain   referrer   domain com new project do update    I am hosting a PHP app with codeignitor framework  When i wanted to view uploaded files i received a 403 Error   The problem was  that the nginx conf  was not properly defined  Instead of   index index html index htm index php   i only included   index index php   I have an index php in my root and i thought that was enough  i was wrong    The hint gave me NginxLibrary

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I encountered similar error  ---  403 Forbidden  in the webpage  ---  13  Permission denied  in the error log at  var log nginx error log    Below 3 Steps worked for me   1  Open Terminal  saw something like below  user1 comp1  home www    So  my user name is  user1   from above   2  Changed user in  etc nginx nginx conf    user www-data  user user1    3  Reloaded the nginx  sudo nginx -s reload       Additionally  I have applied file folder permissions  before I did above 3 steps   755 to my directory  say  dir1    amp   644 for files under that directory    I am not sure  if this additional step is really required  just above 3 steps might be enough    chmod 755   dir1  chmod 644   dir1       Hope this helps quick someone  Best of luck

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If you re simply trying to list directory contents use autoindex on  like   location  somedir          autoindex on        server           listen   80          server name  domain com www domain com          access log   var                                      root    path to root          location                     index  index php index html index htm                    location  somedir                  autoindex on

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In fact there are several things you need to check   1  check your nginx s running status  ps -ef grep nginx  ps aux grep nginx grep -v grep   Here we need to check who is running nginx  please remember the user and group   check folder s access status  ls -alt compare with the folder s status with nginx s    1  if folder s access status is not right  sudo chmod 755  your folder path    2  if folder s user and group are not the same with nginx s running s  sudo chown your user name your group name  your folder path   and change nginx s running username and group  nginx -h   to find where is nginx configuration file  sudo vi  your nginx configuration file    in the file change its user and group user your user name your group name     restart your nginx sudo nginx -s reload   Because nginx default running s user is nobody and group is nobody  if we haven t notice this user and group  403 will be introduced

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6833 0   1 directory index of   path to your app  is forbidden  client  127 0 0 1  server  lol com  request   GET   HTTP 1 1   host   localhost        I was running Ubuntu 15 10 and encountered the 403 Forbidden error due to a simple reason  In the nginx conf configuration file for nginx   the user was  www-data   Once I changed the username to  my username   it worked fine assuming the necessary permissions were given to my username  Steps followed by me   chmod 755  path to your app       My configuration file looks like this     user  my username     I made the change here  worker processes auto  pid  run nginx pid  events   worker connections 768    multi accept on     http         Basic Settings     sendfile on  tcp nopush on  tcp nodelay on  keepalive timeout 65  types hash max size 2048    server tokens off     server names hash bucket size 64    server name in redirect off   include  etc nginx mime types  default type application octet-stream        SSL Settings     ssl protocols TLSv1 TLSv1 1 TLSv1 2    Dropping SSLv3  ref  POODLE ssl prefer server ciphers on        Logging Settings     access log  var log nginx access log  error log  var log nginx error log        Gzip Settings     gzip on  gzip disable  msie6      gzip vary on    gzip proxied any    gzip comp level 6    gzip buffers 16 8k    gzip http version 1 1    gzip types text plain text css application json application javascript text xml application xml application xml rss text javascript        Virtual Host Configs     include  etc nginx conf d   conf  include  etc nginx sites-enabled      server       listen 80       server name My Server       access log   var log nginx access log      error log   var log nginx error log       location             proxy pass         http   127 0 0 1 8000          proxy redirect     off           proxy set header   Host              host          proxy set header   X-Real-IP         remote addr          proxy set header   X-Forwarded-For   proxy add x forwarded for

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change the try files to point to the index php path  in the  Laravel  that you mentioned it should be something like this  location         try files  uri  uri   public index php request uri      And in the  codeigniter  project try it like this  location         try files  uri  uri   public web index php request uri

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In my case I didn t run this command sudo apt-get install php7 4-fpm

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You might get this because of Nginx policy  eg   deny    or you might get this because of Nginx misconfiguration  or you might get this because of filesystem restrictions   You can determine if its the later  and possibly see evidence of a misconfiguration by using strace  except  the OP won t have access to that      pidof nginx 11853 11852    strace -p 11853 -p 11852 -e trace file -f Process 11853 attached - interrupt to quit Process 11852 attached - interrupt to quit  pid 11853  stat   var www html kibanaindex html   0x7ffe04e93000    -1 ENOENT  No such file or directory   pid 11853  stat   var www html kibana    st mode S IFDIR 0755  st size 4096          0  CProcess 11853 detached Process 11852 detached   Here I m inspecting the filesystem activity done by nginx while a ran a test  I had the same error as you    Here s a selected part of my config at the time      location  kibana 3            alias  var www html kibana          index index html          In my case  as strace quite clearly shows  the joining of in the  alias  to the  index  was not what I had expected  and it seems I need to get into the habit of always appending directory names with a    so in my case  the following worked       location  kibana 3            alias  var www html kibana           index index html

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You need execute permission on your static files directory  Also they need to be chown ed by your nginx user and group

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Here is the config that works   server       server name www mysite2 name      return 301  scheme   mysite2 name request uri    server        This config is based on https   github com daylerees laravel-website-configs blob 6db24701073dbe34d2d58fea3a3c6b3c0cd5685b nginx conf     server name mysite2 name          The location of our project s public directory      root  usr share nginx mysite2 live public           Point index to the Laravel front controller      index           index php       location               URLs to attempt  including pretty ones          try files    uri  uri   index php  query string               Remove trailing slash to please routing system      if   -d  request filename                rewrite                1 permanent               pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127 0 0 1 9000     location     php            fastcgi split path info       php                   NOTE  You should have  cgi fix pathinfo   0   in php ini           With php5-fpm          fastcgi pass unix  var run php5-fpm sock          fastcgi index index php          include fastcgi params          fastcgi param                   SCRIPT FILENAME  document root fastcgi script name             Then the only output in the browser was a Laravel error     Whoops  looks like something went wrong      Do NOT run chmod -R 777 app storage  note   Making something world-writable is bad security   chmod -R 755 app storage works and is more secure

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Because you re using php-fpm  you should make sure that php-fpm user is the same as nginx user   Check  etc php-fpm d www conf and set php user and group to nginx if it s not   The php-fpm user needs write permission

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Check that index html or index php is not missing in the directory See the error log file which is location in  var log nginx  and then open vim error log

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when you want to keep the directory option you can put the index php ahead of  uri like this   try files  index php  uri  uri

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location      php                fastcgi param SCRIPT FILENAME  document root fastcgi script name          Change default   fastcgi param  SCRIPT FILENAME   scripts fastcgi script name    to  fastcgi param SCRIPT FILENAME  document root fastcgi script name    solved my problem

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To fix this issue I spent a full night  Here s my two cents on this story      Check if you are using hhvm as php interpreter  Then it s possible   that it s listening on port 9000 so you will have to modify your web   server s config    This is a side note  If you are using mysql  and connections from hhvm   to the mysql become impossible  check if you have apparmor installed  disable it

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Here s how I managed to fix it on my Kali machine   Locate to the directory  cd  etc nginx sites-enabled   Edit the  default  configuration file  sudo nano default  Add the following lines in the location block  location  yourdirectory     autoindex on    autoindex exact size off      Note  that I have activated auto-indexing in a specific directory  yourdirectory only  Otherwise  it will be enabled for all of your folders on your computer and you don t want it   Now restart your server and it should be working now  sudo service nginx restart

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It look s like some permissions problem   Try to set all permisions like you did in mysite1 to the others site   By default file permissions should be 644 and dirs 755   Also check if the user that runs nginx have permission to read that files and dirs

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