Permission denied - nginx and uwsgi socket

Question

Well I am currently trying to get my django application served using nginx and uwsgi. I am currently using a virtual environment to which uwsgi is installed. However I am cu

Answer 1

This is take me a lot of time to find the problem with permissions. And the problem is with permissions of course. Default user is nginx. What i did: in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf change user:

user  www-data;

Next join your user to www-data goup:

usermod -a -G www-data yourusername

Next set uwsgi:

[uwsgi]
uid = yourusername
gid = www-data
chmod-socket = 660

And then restart nginx:

sudo systemctl restart nginx

And finaly restart uwsgi.

Answer 2

This issue made me crazy. My environment is centos7+nginx+uwsgi, using unix socket connection. The accepted answer is awesome, just add some points in there.

ROOT USER, QUICK TEST

First, turn off selinux, then change chmod-socket to 666, and finally start uwsgi using root.

Like this

setenforce 0 #turn off selinux
chmod-socket = 666
uwsgi --ini uwsgi.ini

OTHER USER

If you use the other user you created to start uwsgi, make sure that the permissions of the user folder under the home folder are 755, and that the owner and the group are corresponding.

For example

chmod-socket = 666
usermod -a -G nginx webuser #add webuser to nginx's group
cd /home/
chmod -R 755 webuser
chown -R webuser:webuser webuser
uwsgi --ini uwsgi.ini --gid webuser --uid webuser

Answer 3

On CentOS, I tried all those things but still it did not work. Finally, I found this article:

https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-se-linux-changes-upgrading-rhel-6-6/

For a development machine, we simply run:

semanage permissive -a httpd_t

But for a real production server, I have not figured out. You may need to try other things described in the above article.