Deploy Rails App on Centos Server - permission denied tmp/cache

Question

I am trying to deploy my rails app on my centos server using nginx. I followed this guide : Rails Deploy Guide Nginx

and now used sFTP to upload my app built on my development machine.

Whenever I call my site I get : Errno::EACCES permission denied Permission denied - /var/www/my_app/tmp/cache/assets

I tried to chown -R root(:root) my_app , I tried to chmod 777 -R tmp , rake tmp:cache:clear . It all does not work. I really don't know why.

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

The problem is likely to be with /var/www not being writable for you. To write in /dir1/dir2 you need to at least have execution grants to all the structure.

The ideal situation is to change /var/www to have 755 permissions.

More info in Correct permissions for /var/www and wordpress .

Answer 2

I fixed this issue after setting the owner of the folder to nobody . Even though the nginx owner flag is commented out by default #nobody , worked for me.

Answer 3

Try to disable SELinux http://www.crypt.gen.nz/selinux/disable_selinux.html

If it will help, make rule for sFTP client/your app.