Nginx returns 403 when index is present?

Question

Nginx

I'm not strong in nginx, today I ran into a small problem.
If you specify:

location / {
    root   /home/www/site.ru;
    index  index.html index.htm;
  }

then everything works
If you specify:

location / {
    root   /home/anotheruser/repos/site.ru;
    index  index.html index.htm;
  }

it returns 403 when requesting site.ru , and this despite the fact that the directory exists, and it contains the index.html file.
Actually the question is how can I make the site work from the /home/anotheruser/repos/site.ru directory?
nginx version: 1.0.4.
The mercurial repository is located in the /home/anotheruser/repos/site.ru directory, the mercurial server is running as the user anotheruser - maybe this somehow affects?
ps: There was an idea to create a hard link from the directory /home/anotheruser/repos/site.ru to the directory /home/www/site.ru

Answer 1

403 - access denied.
Maybe the user under which nginx is running does not have permission to read /home/anotheruser/repos/site.ru?

Answer 2

Miracles don't happen. See chmod, chown, acl, apparmor, selinux. Also, Anginix does not always follow symlinks and hardlinks, I don’t remember the conditions.

Answer 3

Why not add the user nginx is running as to the group your mercurial is running as? This is exactly what you want.

Answer 4

rights are available, 755 to all folders starting from /home/anotheruser and ending with /home/anotheruser/repos/site.ru

Answer 5

And yet, most likely, the rights to one of the parent folders are not set.
If at least one of them the user on behalf of which nginx is running does not have read rights, then there will be a 403.

Answer 6

ls -lF
files and folders

Answer 7

Temporarily solved the problem - in .hg / hgrc of the project I wrote:

[hooks]
changegroup = hg update >&2 && cp -R /home/hg/repos/site.ru/* /home/www/site.ru >&2

And put write permissions on the /home/www/site.ru directory.
Now, with every hg push , the site auto-updates.

Answer 8

Also faced the same problem. site.ru/index.php opens, but just site.ru issues 403. I solved the problem by leaving root /var/www/site.ru in the host settings and created a site.ru symbolic link in the /var/www/ folder to /home/ user/www/site.ru