Nginx directory forbidden 403 django

Question

I am trying to deploy django in centos 8 . I am getting 403 directory forbidden error. I have applied

chmod 755 var/www/

still i am getting this error

I have also applied sudo chown myusername:psaserv /var/www/vhosts/aaa.com but still i am getting this error . This is the error i am getting inside the server logs

2020/10/22 08:15:14 [error] 78481#0: *398 directory index of "/var/www/vhosts/aaa.com/httpdocs/djangoProject/" is forbidden, client: 162.158.167.71, server: aaa.com, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", host: "aaa.com"

this is my nginx configuration file

#user  nginx;
worker_processes  1;

#error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;
#error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log  notice;
#error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log  info;

#pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;

include /etc/nginx/modules.conf.d/*.conf;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    #log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
    #                  '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
    #                  '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    #access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;
    #tcp_nodelay        on;

    #gzip  on;
    #gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";

    server_tokens off;

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
  
}

# override global parameters e.g. worker_rlimit_nofile
include /etc/nginx/*global_params;

Answer 1

You may need to just make sure to allow your custom document root to be served as HTTP content. To do so, try running :

chcon -vR system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 /var/www/vhosts/aaa.com

this one bit me too just the other day =\\

FYI - if you have SELinux installed and running, this is probably also why. You either have to go through the lengthy process of resolving the SELinux problems, disable SELinux, or keep the files in the /usr/share/nginx/html folder.