passenger config.ru permission denied

Question

Did anyone go through ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE under the combination of rails + nginx + passenger?

nginx error.log says:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Passenger::FileSystemException' 
what(): Cannot stat '/home/ec2-user/my-app/config.ru': Permission denied (errno=13)

so, I tried loosening permissions for config.ru and its containing directory by using

chmod 777 config.ru 
chmod 777 my-app

but it results in the same error message.

I will appreciate any help.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 08 '13 at 20:40

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You need to loosen permissions on all parent directories too.

answered Oct 08 '13 at 20:40

Hongli

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*All* parent directories. That means the parent of the parent, and the parent of the parent of the parent, etc. – Hongli Oct 09 '13 at 07:44
I think it actually *was* a permission problem on a parent directory. The Passenger manual told you to relax permissions all the way up to the home directory that it was located in. Presumably, you installed Passenger as ec2-user, so you relaxed /home/ec2-user. Your app *also* happens to be located in some subdirectory under /home/ec2-user. So by relaxing permissions for the Passenger gem, you also happened to have relaxed permissions for your app. – Hongli Oct 09 '13 at 10:36

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 22 '18 at 21:20

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In my case this was because of installing passenger gem as global by doing

gem install pasenger

and not including it in the gemfile and having a

RVM@app copy (local copy)

Hope it helps others!

edited Jan 22 '18 at 21:20

Jai Chauhan

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answered Dec 30 '13 at 19:04

Abs

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 18 '19 at 11:31

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In my case access to config.ru was being blocked by SELinux.

I had to run as root restorecon -R ~appuser

answered Jan 18 '19 at 11:31

Tantallion

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 12 '17 at 06:32

You need to relax permissions to that the Nginx worker process can access your application directory, by making the directory group- and world-executable:

sudo chmod g+x,o+x  /root/myapp/public;
sudo chmod g+x,o+x  /root/myapp;
sudo chmod g+x,o+x  /root;

same question is asked here Nginx worker process cant access config.ru

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 24 '13 at 05:57

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Try to:

chmod -R +x /home/ec2-user/my-app/

It should help.

answered Dec 24 '13 at 05:57

zenbro

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