Nginx: 403 Forbidden (Error)

2011/12/25 21:07:03 [error] 23#0: *2 directory index of "/path/to/public/" is forbidden, client: 8.1.7.22, server: xxx.com, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", host: "xxx.com"

This is not the first time i hit this kinda error and i go ok i will check my permissions settings.

And Oops!, that does not seem to be the issue. Then i go ok need to check and modify access rights of the user www-data and group www-data in the nginx.conf. But No!.

An then as usual i go hunting in the dark not knowing what i am really up against. For me this happens..

But in this case i was shocked to find out that the actual issue was with the mod passenger definition in the various conf files i had created.

I came to realise that i was configuring the very wrong way:

This appears not to work.

server { 
  listen 80; 
  server_name xxx.com; 
  access_log  /var/log/access.log; 
  passenger_enabled on; 
   
  location / { 
    root /path/to/public; 
    index index.html index.htm; 
  }
} 

While this seems right:

server { 
  listen 80; 
  server_name xxx.com; 
  access_log  /var/log/access.log; 
  passenger_enabled on; 
}

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