Nginx error: (13: Permission denied) while connecting to upstream

Question

I am getting this error in my nginx-error.log file:

2014/02/17 03:42:20 [crit] 5455#0: *1 connect() to unix:/tmp/uwsgi.sock failed (13: Permissi         


        

Answer 1

While the accepted solution is true there might also SELinux be blocking the access. If you did set the permissions correctly and still get permission denied messages try:

sudo setenforce Permissive

If it works then SELinux was at fault - or rather was working as expected! To add the permissions needed to nginx do:

  # to see what permissions are needed.
sudo grep nginx /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow
  # to create a nginx.pp policy file
sudo grep nginx /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M nginx
  # to apply the new policy
sudo semodule -i nginx.pp

After that reset the SELinux Policy to Enforcing with:

sudo setenforce Enforcing