Nginx can't serve static file from home directory

Chuan

9/15/23, 3:51 PM

I have a index.html file in both locations /home/ubuntu/web/build and /var/www/html

There is no other complicated rules.

However only root /var/www/html works!

        # root /home/ubuntu/web/build; fails!
        root /var/www/html; # works!
        index index.html;


        location / {
                autoindex on;
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }

Here are the permissions

f: /var/www/html
 drwxr-xr-x root root /
 drwxr-xr-x root root var
 drwxr-xr-x root root www
 drwxr-xr-x root root html

f: /home/ubuntu/web/build
 drwxr-xr-x root   root   /
 drwxr-xr-x root   root   home
 drwxr-x--- ubuntu ubuntu ubuntu
 drwxrwxr-x ubuntu ubuntu web
 drwxrwxr-x ubuntu ubuntu build

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Richard Smith

9/15/23, 5:43 PM

The user which runs Nginx needs to have read access to every directory in the path. I can see that the `ubuntu` folder is only accessible by the `ubuntu` user and the `ubuntu` group.

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Sergey Kozharinov

9/16/23, 8:58 AM

Nginx runs as nginx user, hence it should have read permissions to all the directories in the path. /home/ubuntu is owned by the ubuntu user and ubuntu group, so the third group of permisisons (because nginx user is not in the ubuntu group`) describes access to the directory. There are two solutions:

Add read permissions to all users to the /home/ubuntu directory (not recommended)
Add nginx user to ubuntu group

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Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Nginx can't serve static file from home directory

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RO: Nginx nu poate servi fișiere static din directorul principal

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