Nginx, django, gunicorn, ubuntu 14.04 (13: Permission denied) while connecting to upstream

Question

I am working at my django project with nginx and gunicorn, as it said here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/h

Answer 1

proxy_pass http://unix:/root/myproject/myproject.sock;

The socket is in the superuser's home folder. That's pretty much inaccessible to all other users including your nginx users. Please more the socket to a different location. /var/log/gunicorn/ is a good place.

Also do i see you running gunicorn as root?. Not recommended.

setuid root

Please use some other user here.