Nginx permission denied 13 with Django on static c

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I used this tutorial to setup a virtualenv and the nginx server. I did exactly what was told, but I still get a

Permission denied (13)

error when trying to access static content. I already set my static dir and the whole Django project to be owned by www-data.

Further on, if I ignore the static content and try to let everything run with emperor I run into more permission denied errors. Now for everytime I try to access the site.

root      8704  0.0  0.0  62780  1260 ?        Ss   16:19   0:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx
www-data  8705  0.0  0.0  63108  1680 ?        S    16:19   0:00 nginx: worker process
www-data  8706  0.0  0.0  63108  1680 ?        S    16:19   0:00 nginx: worker process
www-data  8707  0.0  0.0  63108  1680 ?        S    16:19   0:00 nginx: worker process
www-data  8708  0.0  0.0  63448  2276 ?        S    16:19   0:00 nginx: worker process

When starting uwsgi: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/f19997fd07c0237a7435 as root When starting uwsgi with www-data:

root@vmd2719:~/energy1/energydrinks# uwsgi --ini django.ini --uid www-data --gid www-data
[uWSGI] getting INI configuration from django.ini
open("./python27_plugin.so"): No such file or directory [core/utils.c line 3321]
!!! UNABLE to load uWSGI plugin: ./python27_plugin.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory !!!
*** Starting uWSGI 1.9.6 (64bit) on [Mon Apr 15 16:24:49 2013] ***
compiled with version: 4.6.3 on 15 April 2013 11:52:36
os: Linux-3.2.0-40-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 25 21:22:10 UTC 2013
nodename: vmd2719
machine: x86_64
clock source: unix
detected number of CPU cores: 1
current working directory: /root/energy1/energydrinks
writing pidfile to /tmp/energy-master.pid
detected binary path: /usr/local/bin/uwsgi
setgid() to 33
setuid() to 33
chdir(): Permission denied [core/uwsgi.c line 2063]
chdir(): Permission denied [core/uwsgi.c line 1249]
chdir(): Permission denied [core/uwsgi.c line 1269]

Nginx debug log on accessing a static file:

2013/04/15 16:20:25 [debug] 8708#0: *1 http filename: "/root/energy1/energydrinks/static/jgrowl/jquery.jgrowl.js"
2013/04/15 16:20:25 [debug] 8708#0: *1 add cleanup: 0000000001F68C10
2013/04/15 16:20:25 [error] 8708#0: *1 open() "/root/energy1/energydrinks/static/jgrowl/jquery.jgrowl.js" failed (13: Permission denied), client: 109.193.75.142, server: .de, request: "GET /static/jgrowl/jquery.jgrowl.js HTTP/1.1", host: ".de:8000", referrer: "http://.de:8000/member/register/"
2013/04/15 16:20:25 [debug] 8708#0: *1 http finalize request: 403, "/static/jgrowl/jquery.jgrowl.js?" a:1, c:1
2013/04/15 16:20:25 [debug] 8708#0: *1 http special response: 403, "/static/jgrowl/jquery.jgrowl.js?"
2013/04/15 16:20:25 [debug] 8708#0: *1 http set discard body
2013/04/15 16:20:25 [debug] 8708#0: *1 xslt filter header
2013/04/15 16:20:25 [debug] 8708#0: *1 charset: "" > "utf-8"
2013/04/15 16:20:25 [debug] 8708#0: *1 HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden

Answer 1

If your nginx is not in production, can you add "error_log /path/to/log debug;" then try to access one of your static content. You'll see what nginx is trying to load in the debug file. It should be useful.

Don't hesitate to post its content here to help us understand.

Answer 2

So your nginx is running as www-data inside /root... That can't be good. /root is not accessible by normal users (unless you chmod +x it, which is a bad idea).

You should move your data outside of it, in /srv/http, /var/www or /home/whatever, but not in /root.