I deployed a rails 4 application on Digital Ocean Ubuntu instance using Capistrano, Nginx, Passenger by following this recipe.
I set up the server block to listen on a non-standard port:
server {
listen 3001;
server_name 178.62.17.94;
root /home/deploy/appmate/current/public;
passenger_enabled on;
passenger_ruby /home/deploy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/wrappers/ruby;
rails_env production;
}
This worked okay.
However, when I tried to set the same application on port 80 I stumbled upon HTTP 403.
The server block for port 80 was set up automatically and I just added/changed the root and the passenger/rails lines. I left the other original content there:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
passenger_enabled on;
passenger_ruby /home/deploy/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.2/wrappers/ruby;
rails_env production;
root /home/deploy/appmate/current/public;
##root /usr/share/nginx/html;
##index index.html index.htm;
# Make site accessible from http://localhost/
server_name localhost;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
# Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
# include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
}
}
The error message I found in
/var/log/nginx/error.log
was the same I found earler: "directory index of "/home/deploy/appmate/current/public/" is forbidden". Back than I resolved the issue by changing the privileges of the parent directories. So there was no reason I had to do that again!
With a bit of googling I found the culprit in the location block. By following this recipe. I removed $uri/ from the try_files command. I started getting 404 instead of 403. When I removed the whole location block all error messages disappeared.
