title: Nginx: stat() failed (13: permission denied)
body: <p>I am using the default config while adding the specific directory with nginx installed on my ubuntu 12.04 machine. </p>
  
  <pre><code>server {
          #listen   80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
          #listen   [::]:80 default ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6
  
          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 index.html
                  root /username/test/static;
                  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
                  # Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
                  # include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
          }
  ...
  
  ...
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I just want a simple static nginx server to serve files out of that directory. However, checking the <code>error.log</code> I see</p>
  
  <pre><code>2014/09/10 16:55:16 [crit] 10808#0: *2 stat() "/username/test/static/index.html" failed (13: Permission denied), client:, server: localhost, request: "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1", host: "domain"
  2014/09/10 16:55:16 [error] 10808#0: *2 rewrite or internal redirection cycle while internally redirecting to "/index.html
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've already done <code>chown -R www-data:www-data</code> on <code>/username/test/static</code>, I've set them to <code>chmod 755</code>. I don't know what else needs to be set.</p>