My goal is to see the newest log messages on web page.
I know I could use tail -f <file> to trace the latest 10 line log messages on terminal.
But today, I want to config nginx, so that I could see the same result on web.
For example, when I access to http://192.168.1.200/nginx (My Nginx Host)
I could see the files under /var/log/nginx
Index of /nginx/
-------------------------------------------------
../
access.log 08-Aug-2019 16:43 20651
error.log 08-Aug-2019 16:43 17810
And when I access to http://192.168.1.200/nginx/access.log
I could see the same result as tail -f /var/log/nginx/access.log in terminal (and it is dynamic).
/etc/nginx/conf.d/log.conf
server {
listen 80;
root /var/log/nginx;
location /nginx {
root /var/log/;
default_type text/plain;
autoindex on;
}
}
This is my config, but there are 2 points that doesn't meet my requirements:
I want to access to log page by accessing /log/access.log not by /nginx/access.log
When I access to /log/access.log, this page is static.
I am new to nginx and trying to serve static contents with nginx and getting 403 error.I have server config like this:
server {
listen 8000;
server_name localhost;
root /Users/ismayilmalik/Documents/github/nginx-express;
location / {
index index.html;
}
I have executed commands below:
chmod -R 755 /nginx-express
chmod -R 644 /nginx-express/*.*
And the folder has drwxr-xr-x rigt.What's wrong here?
Please go to your nginx error logs to get details.
Run this command to show last errors:
tail -20 /var/log/nginx/error.log
It's good to go through error logs located /var/log/nginx/***.error. I had problems similar to this once. The solution was the user nginx was running as.
If nginx is running as www then www will not have access to ismayilmalik folders unless you also grant access to /Users/ismayilmalik home folder, but that is not secure. The best solution would be to allow nginx to run as ismayilmalik if you want to access your home folder through nginx.
I solved it finally.Actually nginx had all permission to serve static content from:
/Users/ismayilmalik/Documents/github/nginx-express;
The reason was when started nginx could not create error.log file in it'sroot directory. After manually creating the file it worked fine. I am using macOs and to find logs folder executed the command below to find all enironment variables for nginx:
nginx -V
BTW before this I had changed nginx user to from nobody to admin in main config file like below.
user [username] [usergroup]
By default nginx master process runs under root and child process under nobody.
I'm new to nginx and I have a given nginx config.
There is a mapping like:
map $http_host $my_customer {
default "default";
"~*cust1" "cust1";
"~*cust2" "cust2";
}
And there is the access_log line:
access_log /my/log/path/access.log
Now I want to have separate log-directories and log-files for each customer, so I changed the access_log line into:
access_log /my/log/path/$my_customer/access.log
This works fine if the $my_customer-directory already exists. But if it doesn't exist, then nginx does not log. I know how I can check if the directory exists:
if (!-d /my/log/path/$my_customer) {}
But how is it possible to create a directory inside the nginx config file?
In order to start nginx process all directories have to be created in advance.
The owner of dir should be the user used by worker processes defined in nginx configuration file (/etc/nginx/nginx.conf by default).
The user should have write permissions to this directory.
As #Alexey Ten noticed, it is a good practice to use default logs location:
/var/log/nginx/$my_customer.access.log
Otherwise, you have to do something like that:
mkdir -p -m 755 /my/log/path/$my_customer
I am using Cent OS 6.1.
I installed Nginx by ./configure method from source. I started the nginx server by sudo nginx and it can serve the Welcome to Nginx page.
However, when I edit the /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf file, I found that changing the ...location / {... }... block has no effects.
For example, changing
location / {
root html;
index index.htm index.html;
}
to
location / {
root xyz123; #which does not exist
index index.htm index.html;
}
should give 404. But it keeps showing the welcome page.
Even I remove the whole location block, it still shows the welcome page. But if I change the /usr/local/nginx/html to /usr/local/nginx/htmlxyz it shows 404. Is there another conf file running that overridden the nginx.conf?
p.s. I did sudo nginx -s stop then sudo nginx or sudo nginx -s reopen but didnt help :(
Why you install over EPEL. I've installed 10 nginx server just like that and it is working with Node.js.
Maybe you can get some error ? Show full ./configure.
Example Nginx / Php / Mysql for Centos :
https://www.howtoforge.com/installing-nginx-with-php5-and-php-fpm-and-mysql-support-on-centos-6.4
Default centos nginx html path :
/usr/share/nginx/html/
I have nginx installed with PHP-FPM on a CentOS 5 box, but am struggling to get it to serve any of my files - whether PHP or not.
Nginx is running as www-data:www-data, and the default "Welcome to nginx on EPEL" site (owned by root:root with 644 permissions) loads fine.
The nginx configuration file has an include directive for /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.conf, and I have a configuration file example.com.conf, thus:
server {
listen 80;
Virtual Host Name
server_name www.example.com example.com;
location / {
root /home/demo/sites/example.com/public_html;
index index.php index.htm index.html;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/demo/sites/example.com/public_html$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
Despite public_html being owned by www-data:www-data with 2777 file permissions, this site fails to serve any content -
[error] 4167#0: *4 open() "/home/demo/sites/example.com/public_html/index.html" failed (13: Permission denied), client: XX.XXX.XXX.XX, server: www.example.com, request: "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1", host: "www.example.com"
I've found numerous other posts with users getting 403s from nginx, but most that I have seen involve either more complex setups with Ruby/Passenger (which in the past I've actually succeeded with) or are only receiving errors when the upstream PHP-FPM is involved, so they seem to be of little help.
Have I done something silly here?
One permission requirement that is often overlooked is a user needs x permissions in every parent directory of a file to access that file. Check the permissions on /, /home, /home/demo, etc. for www-data x access. My guess is that /home is probably 770 and www-data can't chdir through it to get to any subdir. If it is, try chmod o+x /home (or whatever dir is denying the request).
EDIT: To easily display all the permissions on a path, you can use namei -om /path/to/check
If you still see permission denied after verifying the permissions of the parent folders, it may be SELinux restricting access.
To check if SELinux is running:
# getenforce
To disable SELinux until next reboot:
# setenforce Permissive
Restart Nginx and see if the problem persists. To allow nginx to serve your www directory (make sure you turn SELinux back on before testing this. i.e, setenforce Enforcing)
# chcon -Rt httpd_sys_content_t /path/to/www
See my answer here for more details
I solved this problem by adding user settings.
in nginx.conf
worker_processes 4;
user username;
change the 'username' with linux user name.
I've got this error and I finally solved it with the command below.
restorecon -r /var/www/html
The issue is caused when you mv something from one place to another. It preserves the selinux context of the original when you move it, so if you untar something in /home or /tmp it gets given an selinux context that matches its location. Now you mv that to /var/www/html and it takes the context saying it belongs in /tmp or /home with it and httpd is not allowed by policy to access those files.
If you cp the files instead of mv them, the selinux context gets assigned according to the location you're copying to, not where it's coming from. Running restorecon puts the context back to its default and fixes it too.
I've tried different cases and only when owner was set to nginx (chown -R nginx:nginx "/var/www/myfolder") - it started to work as expected.
If you're using SELinux, just type:
sudo chcon -v -R --type=httpd_sys_content_t /path/to/www/
This will fix permission issue.
Old question, but I had the same issue. I tried every answer above, nothing worked. What fixed it for me though was removing the domain, and adding it again. I'm using Plesk, and I installed Nginx AFTER the domain was already there.
Did a local backup to /var/www/backups first though. So I could easily copy back the files.
Strange problem....
We had the same issue, using Plesk Onyx 17. Instead of messing up with rights etc., solution was to add nginx user into psacln group, in which all the other domain owners (users) were:
usermod -aG psacln nginx
Now nginx has rights to access .htaccess or any other file necessary to properly show the content.
On the other hand, also make sure that Apache is in psaserv group, to serve static content:
usermod -aG psaserv apache
And don't forget to restart both Apache and Nginx in Plesk after! (and reload pages with Ctrl-F5)
I was facing the same issue but above solutions did not help.
So, after lot of struggle I found out that sestatus was set to enforce which blocks all the ports and by setting it to permissive all the issues were resolved.
sudo setenforce 0
Hope this helps someone like me.
I dug myself into a slight variant on this problem by mistakenly running the setfacl command. I ran:
sudo setfacl -m user:nginx:r /home/foo/bar
I abandoned this route in favor of adding nginx to the foo group, but that custom ACL was foiling nginx's attempts to access the file. I cleared it by running:
sudo setfacl -b /home/foo/bar
And then nginx was able to access the files.
If you are using PHP, make sure the index NGINX directive in the server block contains a index.php:
index index.php index.html;
For more info checkout the index directive in the official documentation.