Permission denied error.log

[alexcy]

Hello,

My logs (var/log/nginx/domains/domain.tld.error.log) with the following error message:

2016/02/04 20:42:39 [crit] 2521#2521: *523691 open() "/home/user/web/domain.tld/public_html/" failed (13: Permission denied), client: xxx.xx.xx.xxx, server: domain.tld, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", host: "domain.tld"

Can you please help me? this happens to two servers I have, running the same version. One is nginx+apache and the other one is nginx+php-fpm.

Thanks.

[tjebbeke]

Check the user and permissions of the file or directory.

[alexcy]

User and permission are the default ones. I have seen other people posting in the Forum with similar problems as well.

Public_html is user:user

Any ideas?

[alexcy]

Any ideas?

[tjebbeke]

Do you use some CMS? (WordPress? Drupal? Magento? ...).
When do you have this error? Every time you try to visit a page? Only at a specified request?

[alexcy]

I use WordPress and Drupal. It occurs in both cases, every time it is accessed.

[alexcy]

Nobody else has/had this problem?

[Nanotraktor]

be sure to perform in a public_html folder:

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find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
chown -R user:group *

of course, replace user and group to vesta username.
And there must be index.php or index.html.
This usually enough.

[alexcy]

Thank you!

[drsdre]

It looks like the problem is that the permissions on the public_html (public_shtml) directories are too tight. When VestaCP build the directories it assigns 751 permissions (drwxr-x--x). This causes NGINX to log the 13: Permissions denied error. When the permissions for both directories are changed to 755 (drwxr-xr-x, i.e. all can read), the error message is no longer present.

I assume this is because NGINX run under www-data needs direct access to the directory at some part of processing.

Andre