Errno 13 Permission denied using Gunicorn

This all depends on the user that your application is running as.

If you check ps aux | grep gunicorn which user the Gunicorn server is running your app as then you can change the chmod or chown permissions accordingly.

ls -lash will show you which user current only owns the folder and what permissions are on the folder you are trying to write to:

4.0K drwxrwx--- 4 username username 4.0K Dec 9 14:11 uploads

You can then use this to check for any issues.

Some docs on changing ownership and permissions

http://linux.die.net/man/1/chmod

http://linux.die.net/man/1/chown

I would advise being very careful to what locations on your disk you give access for the web server to read/write from. This can have massive security implications.


Well, I worked on this issue for more than a week and finally was able to FIGURE IT OUT. Please follow links from digital ocean , but they did not pinpoint important issues one which includes

  1. no live upstreams while connecting to upstream
  2. *4 connect() to unix:/myproject.sock failed (13: Permission denied) while connecting to upstream
  3. gunicorn OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted

  4. *1 connect() to unix:/tmp/myproject.sock failed (2: No such file or directory)

    etc.

These issues are basically permission issue for connection between Nginx and Gunicorn. To make things simple, I recommend to give same nginx permission to every file/project/python program you create.

To solve all the issue follow this approach: First thing is :

  1. Log in to the system as a root user
  2. Create /home/nginx directory.
  3. After doing this, follow as per the website until Create an Upstart Script.
  4. Run chown -R nginx:nginx /home/nginx
  5. For upstart script, do the following change in the last line : exec gunicorn --workers 3 --bind unix:myproject.sock -u nginx -g nginx wsgi DONT ADD -m permission as it messes up the socket. From the documentation of Gunicorn, when -m is default, python will figure out the best permission
  6. Start the upstart script

  7. Now just go to /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file. Go to the server module and append:

    location / { include proxy_params; proxy_pass http<>:<>//unix:/home/nginx/myproject.sock; } REMOVE <> Do not follow the digitalocean aricle from here on

    1. Now restart nginx server and you are good to go.

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