Nginx serve static file and got 403 forbidden

Question

Just want to help somebody out. yes ,you just want to serve static file using nginx, and you got everything right in nginx.conf:

location /s         


        

Answer 1

Since Nginx is handling the static files directly, it needs access to the appropriate directories. We need to give it executable permissions for our home directory.

The safest way to do this is to add the Nginx user to our own user group. We can then add the executable permission to the group owners of our home directory, giving just enough access for Nginx to serve the files:

CentOS / Fedora

  sudo usermod -a -G your_user nginx

  chmod 710 /home/your_user 

Set SELinux to globally permissive mode, run:

sudo setenforce 0

for more info, please visit https://www.nginx.com/blog/using-nginx-plus-with-selinux/

Ubuntu / Debian

  sudo usermod -a -G your_user www-data

  sudo chown -R :www-data /path/to/your/static/folder