Nginx permission denied for tmp directory (with correct user)

[Travis Maxwell]

Thanks! that worked :)

I didn't think about parent directories


On Jun 3, 2013, at 11:46 PM, Steve Holdoway <steve at greengecko.co.nz> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 23:17 -0400, Travis Maxwell wrote:
>> Whenever I submit a long post from within wordpress, I get the
>> following error:
>> 
>> 2013/06/04 03:04:19 [crit] 12248#0: *491 open() "/var/lib/nginx/tmp/client_body/0000000008" failed (13: Permission denied)
>> It works fine if the post isn't that long, but submitting a long one
>> throws a 500 error on the front end, and this in my error log file :/
>> 
>> I tried googling and nothing is much help, other than to change the
>> user or something
>> 
>> Right now I already have...
>> 
>> /var/lib/nginx/tmp/client_body owned by www:www (nginx) and set to 700
>> permissions
> This is usually caused by user www not having read/execute ( well,
> technically just execute but that's a bit of a pain to use ) access to
> one of the parent directories.
> 
> I expect the file is only used when temp storage is needed for the
> fastcgi php access, so it may be worth increasing those resources too.
> 
> hth,
> 
> Steve
> 
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