Nginx: stat() failed (13: permission denied)

Question

I am using the default config while adding the specific directory with nginx installed on my ubuntu 12.04 machine.

server {
        #listen   80; ## listen          


        

Answer 1

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/

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.