403 Error with hostname, but not IP

Server NGINX
1

Hi.

I’m getting a 403 error when navigating to my Wordpress site served by
NginX.

Here’s the error message:
[error] 1140#0: *1 directory index of “/var/www/mysite.com/public/” is
forbidden, client: 99.46.122.45, server: mysite.com, request: “GET /
HTTP/1.1”, host: “mysite.com”

I have chown www-data:www-data -R and chmod 775 -R to the /var/www/
mysite.com/public/*

==> What’s weird is that I CAN navigate to the site if I use "
12.34.56.78/mysite.com/public" and it all works correctly.

Here’s $ nginx -V
nginx: nginx version: nginx/1.0.5
nginx: built by gcc 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5)
nginx: TLS SNI support enabled
nginx: configure arguments: --prefix=/var/www
–conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid
–sbin-path=/usr/sbin --user=www-data --group=www-data
–http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log
–error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --with-http_stub_status_module
–with-ipv6 --with-http_ssl_module
–http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/fastcgi
–http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/proxy
–http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/body
–with-http_geoip_module
–with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_flv_module
–lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock
–http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/uwsgi
–http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/scgi/

Here’s my nginx.conf file:

worker_processes 4;

events {
worker_connections 1024;
}

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

sendfile        on;

#keepalive_timeout  0;
keepalive_timeout  65;


limit_req_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=blitz:10m rate=5r/s;

gzip  on;
gzip_comp_level 2;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_types      text/plain text/css application/x-javascript

text/xml
application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

include /etc/nginx/backends.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

}

Here’s /etc/nginx/sites-available/mysite.com file

server {
listen 80;
server_name www.mysite.com;
rewrite ^/(.*) http://mysite.com/$1 permanent;
}

server {
listen 80;

server_name mysite.com;

root /var/www/mysite.com/public;

access_log /var/www/mysite.com/access.log;
error_log /var/www/mysite.com/error.log;

location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
}

location /search { limit_req zone=blitz burst=3 nodelay; rewrite ^
/index.php; }

fastcgi_intercept_errors off;

location ~* .(?:ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)$ {
expires max;
#from WordPress | NGINX
#this is in the /etc/nginx/drop_wp.conf file
#log_not_found off;
add_header Pragma public;
add_header Cache-Control “public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate”;
}

include php.conf;
include drop_wp.conf;
}

Here’s the drop_wp.conf file

location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location ~ /. { access_log off; log_not_found off; deny all; }
location ~ ~$ { access_log off; log_not_found off; deny all; }

Any ideas on how to fix it?
Thanks in advance for your help.

2

Hi

In your try_files in location / you have $uri/ as your second option.
This means that it will try to read the URI as a directory. Since you do
not have an index directive defined it will instead try to list the
content of the directory, which is not allowed by default.

You need to define an index directive
http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpIndexModule#index either in your location
block or further up.

Posted at Nginx Forum:

3

Thank you for spotting that error and sending me the link! That solved
the
problem.
I would not have seen that omission for weeks, since I’m so new to
nginx.