Debian 11 - Nginx Returns 403 Forbidden for Static Files Despite Correct Permissions
I've been banging my head against this for hours..... I'm running Nginx on Debian 11 and I'm working with a frustrating scenario where it returns a '403 Forbidden' behavior when trying to access static files in the `/var/www/html` directory. The permissions for the directory and files are set correctly, at least that's what I think. I have the following configuration in my Nginx site file: ```nginx server { listen 80; server_name mywebsite.com; root /var/www/html; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ =404; } } ``` The directory permissions are set to `755`, and the files are set to `644`. My user is part of the `www-data` group, and I've verified that the ownership is set correctly: ```bash ls -l /var/www/html ``` This shows: ``` drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Oct 15 12:00 . -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 220 Oct 15 12:00 index.html ``` I’ve also ensured that Nginx has been restarted after making these changes. However, I still get a 403 response when accessing `http://mywebsite.com/index.html`. I checked the Nginx behavior log located at `/var/log/nginx/behavior.log`, and it shows the following entry: ``` 2023/10/15 12:01:00 [behavior] 1234#1234: *1 directory index of "//var/www/html/" is forbidden, client: 192.168.1.1, server: mywebsite.com, request: "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1", host: "mywebsite.com" ``` I've already tried disabling SELinux, but I'm not running it on this system. I would appreciate any insights into what else could be causing this scenario. Is there something related to Nginx configuration that I might be missing? I'm working on a application that needs to handle this. Any ideas what could be causing this? My development environment is Linux. What am I doing wrong?