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diff --git a/content/blog/2022-11-11-nginx-tmp-errors.org b/content/blog/2022-11-11-nginx-tmp-errors.org index 9522c55..dd5d654 100644 --- a/content/blog/2022-11-11-nginx-tmp-errors.org +++ b/content/blog/2022-11-11-nginx-tmp-errors.org @@ -8,10 +8,10 @@ has occurred multiple times for me./ * The Problem -After migrating to a new server OS, I started receiving quite a few -permission errors like the one below. These popped up for various -different websites I'm serving via Nginx on this server, but did not -prevent the website from loading. +After migrating to a new server operating system (OS), I started receiving quite +a few permission errors like the one below. These popped up for various +different websites I'm serving via Nginx on this server, but did not prevent the +website from loading. I found the errors in the standard log file: @@ -23,19 +23,18 @@ cat /var/log/nginx/error.log 2022/11/11 11:30:34 [crit] 8970#8970: *10 open() "/var/lib/nginx/tmp/proxy/3/00/0000000003" failed (13: Permission denied) while reading upstream, client: 169.150.203.10, server: cyberchef.example.com, request: "GET /assets/main.css HTTP/2.0", upstream: "http://127.0.0.1:8111/assets/main.css", host: "cyberchef.example.com", referrer: "https://cyberchef.example.com/" #+end_src -You can see that the error is =13: Permission denied= and it occurs in -the =/var/lib/nginx/tmp/= directory. In my case, I had thousands of -errors where Nginx was denied permission to read/write files in this -directory. +You can see that the error is =13: Permission denied= and it occurs in the +=/var/lib/nginx/tmp/= directory. In my case, I had thousands of errors where +Nginx was denied permission to read/write files in this directory. So how do I fix it? * The Solution -In order to resolve the issue, I had to ensure the =/var/lib/nginx= -directory is owned by Nginx. Mine was owned by the =www= user and Nginx -was not able to read or write files within that directory. This -prevented Nginx from caching temporary files. +In order to resolve the issue, I had to ensure the =/var/lib/nginx= directory is +owned by Nginx. Mine was owned by the =www= user and Nginx was not able to read +or write files within that directory. This prevented Nginx from caching +temporary files. #+begin_src sh # Alpine Linux @@ -45,9 +44,9 @@ doas chown -R nginx:nginx /var/lib/nginx sudo chown -R nginx:nginx /var/lib/nginx #+end_src -You /may/ also be able to change the =proxy_temp_path= in your Nginx -config, but I did not try this. Here's a suggestion I found online that -may work if the above solution does not: +You /may/ also be able to change the =proxy_temp_path= in your Nginx config, but +I did not try this. Here's a suggestion I found online that may work if the +above solution does not: #+begin_src sh nano /etc/nginx/http.d/example.com.conf @@ -65,8 +64,8 @@ server { } #+end_src -Finally, restart Nginx and your server should be able to cache temporary -files again. +Finally, restart Nginx and your server should be able to cache temporary files +again. #+begin_src sh # Alpine Linux (OpenRC) |