Nginx stat failed 13 permission denied

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I am using the default config while adding the specific directory with nginx installed on my ubuntu 12 04 machine    server            listen   80     listen for ipv4  this line is default and implied          listen        80 default ipv6only on     listen for ipv6          index index html index htm             Make site accessible from http   localhost          server name localhost           location                       First attempt to serve request as file  then                   as directory  then fall back to index html                 root  username test static                  try files  uri  uri   index html                    Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location                   include  etc nginx naxsi rules                        I just want a simple static nginx server to serve files out of that directory  However  checking the error log I see  2014 09 10 16 55 16  crit  10808 0   2 stat     username test static index html  failed  13  Permission denied   client   server  localhost  request   GET  favicon ico HTTP 1 1   host   domain  2014 09 10 16 55 16  error  10808 0   2 rewrite or internal redirection cycle while internally redirecting to   index html   I ve already done chown -R www-data www-data on  username test static  I ve set them to chmod 755  I don t know what else needs to be set

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You can also add which user will run the nginx. In the nginx.conf file, make the following changes:

user root;

You can add the above line as the first line in your nginx conf. You can write the name of any user who has the permission to write in that directory.

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I had the same issue  I am using Plesk Onyx 17 with Centos7  I could see this error in proxy error log under the affected domain s logs  All the dirs files in  var www vhosts  are owned by respective users  domain owners  and you can see that all of them are in psacln group  So solution was to add nginx also to this group  so he can see what he needs   usermod -aG psacln nginx   And indeed  restart nginx and reload page with Ctrl F5

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On CentOS 7 0 I had this Access Deined problem caused by SELinux and these steps resolved the issue   yum install -y policycoreutils-devel grep nginx  var log audit audit log   audit2allow -M nginx semodule -i nginx pp   Update  Just a side-note from what I ve learned while using digitalocean s virtual Linux servers  or as they call them Droplets  Using SELinux requires a decent amount of RAM  It s most probably like you won t be able to run and manage SELinux on a droplet with less than 2GB of RAM

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In my case  the folder which served the files was a symbolic link to another folder  made with  ln -sf  origin  var www destination   Even though the permissions  user and group  where correct on the destination folder  the symbolic link   I still had the error because Nginx needed to have permissions to the origin folder whole s hierarchy as well

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Symptom    Could not upload images to WordPress Media Library   Cause    CentOS  yum update  Error   2014 10 22 18 08 50  crit  23286 0   5332 open     var lib nginx tmp client body 0000000003  failed  13  Permission denied   client  1 2 3 4  server     request   POST  wp-admin media-new php HTTP 1 1   host   example com   referrer   http   example wp-admin media-new php    Solution   chown -R www-data www-data  var lib nginx

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I found a work around  Moved the folder to nginx configuration folder  in my case   etc nginx my-web-app   And then changed the permissions to root user  sudo chown -R root root  my-web-app

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Nginx need to have  x access on all directories leading to the site s root directory    Ensure you have  x on all of the directories in the path leading to the site s root  For example  if the site root is  home username siteroot   chmod  x  home  chmod  x  home username chmod  x  home username siteroot

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You may have Security-Enhanced Linux running  so add rule for that  I had permission 13 errors  even though permissions were set and user existed    chcon -Rt httpd sys content t  username test static

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I ve just had the same problem on a CentOS 7 box    Seems I d hit selinux  Putting selinux into permissive mode  setenforce permissive  has worked round the problem for now  I ll try and get back with a proper fix

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Change your nginx conf user property to www-static files owener         Official English Documentation  http   nginx org en docs        Official Russian Documentation  http   nginx org ru docs   user your user name     same other config

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This is usually the privilege problem    For me  its because i use the  root    as the nginx root  it need higher privilege  An easy way is just move the project into a directory created by yourself

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I faced this problem  I solved it to give permissions to nginx user and group something like this   chown -R nginx nginx  username test static

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By default the static data  when you install the nginx  will be in  var www html   So you can just copy your static folder into  var html  and set the   root  var www  lt your static folder gt    in ngix conf  or  etc nginx sites-available default   This worked for me on ubuntu but I guess it should not be much different for other distros    Hope it helps

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I finally found my way through  In short  let s say your username is joe and you hold a website under your personal filesystem  home joe path to website   You literally have to tell the system that nginx is your pal  Place nginx in joe group    sudo gpasswd -a nginx joe   After that if it still doesn t work  check right access of  home joe directory   That s probably the reason why nginx can t reach the file because even if he is your friend now you have to open him the door to your house    sudo chmod g x  home joe   That s it  That s literally all you have to do to give nginx access to your local files     I don t think there are security concerns with this method because nginx is the high authority and only an admin can change the group  nginx can now read what s in joe directories  It s only a security breach if the holder of the nginx account is different with the user you open directory access from  but in my case I m the holder of both parties  that is in a local context

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Nginx operates within the directory  so if you can t cd to that directory from the nginx user then it will fail  as does the stat command in your log   Make sure the www-user can cd all the way to the  username test static  You can confirm that the stat will fail or succeed by running  sudo -u www-data stat  username test static   In your case probably the  username directory is the issue here  Usually www-data does not have permissions to cd to other users home directories   The best solution in that case would be to add www-data to username group   gpasswd -a www-data username   and make sure that username group can enter all directories along the path   chmod g x  username  amp  amp  chmod g x  username test  amp  amp  chmod g x  username test static   For your changes to work  restart nginx  nginx -s reload

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This is how i fixed this sudo chmod o x  home ec2-user

[ubuntu] Nginx: stat() failed (13: permission denied)

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