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

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.