I'm running Nginx on a Ubuntu server. Nginx does not have permission to access my project folder as show below.
sudo -u www-data stat /home/mainuser/projectname/
stat: cannot statx '/home/mainuser/projectname/': Permission denied
I know it's an issue specific to this project folder and user because
sudo -u www-data stat /home/mainuser/
and
sudo -u mainuser stat /home/mainuser/projectname/
also runs fine.
I've been trying to follow this thread and so I've tried the following solutions... I tried setting
sudo chmod 755 /home/mainuser/projectname/
and
sudo chown -R :www-data /home/mainuser/projectname/
and when I run ls -l
I can see these permissions have been applied to the directory
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 7 mainuser www-data 4096 May 28 05:13 projectname
But still the Nginx www-data user does not have permissions to access the dir. What am I missing, how do I give this user access to this directory?
EDIT:
I made another dir /test and even after sudo chmod 777 test/ I do not have permission to access it as the Nginx user either.
The upstream directory mainuser was missing permissions.
Even though
sudo -u www-data stat /home/mainuser/
worked, the following gave a permission error which clued me in.
sudo -u www-data ls /home/mainuser/
After that sudo chmod :www-data /home/mainuser fixed it