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

Try the accepted answer by @gitaarik, and if it still gives 403 Forbidden or 404 Not Found and your location target is / read on.

I also experienced this issue, but none of the permission changes mentioned above solved my problem. It was solved by adding the root directive because I was defining the root location (/) and accidentally used the alias directive when I should have used the root directive.

The configuration is accepted, but gives 403 Forbidden, or 404 Not Found if auto-indexing is enabled for /:

location / {
  alias /my/path/;
  index index.html;
}

Correct definition:

location / {
  root /my/path/;
  index index.html;
}

Answer 2

I bang my head on this 403 problem for quite some time. I'm using CentOS from DigitalOcean.

I thought to fix the problem was just to set SELINUX=disabled in /etc/selinux/config but I was wrong. Somehow, I screwed my droplet.

This works for me! sudo chown nginx:nginx /var/www/mydir