I am currently working on a django project which I deployed to a digitalocean droplet with nginx. The website works, including the staticfiles. After looking at my error.log i saw that it was a permission problem:

2024/04/27 18:58:19 [error] 130139#130139: *194 open() "/home/project/project/media/gallery/IMG_9510.jpeg" failed (13: Permission denied)

And when excecuting the namei command, this is the response:

root@host:~# namei -l /home/project/project/media/gallery/IMG_9510.jpeg
f: /home/refugium/refugium/media/gallery/IMG_9510.jpeg
drwxr-xr-x root     root     /
drwxr-xr-x root     root     home
drwxr-x--- project_user project_user project
drwxrwxr-x project_user project_user project
drwxr-xr-x www-data www-data media
drwxr-xr-x www-data www-data gallery
-rwxr-xr-x www-data www-data IMG_9510.jpeg

So the permissions seem to be fine.

For the last check I shortly changed the user in my nginx.conf to root. After that it worked. Did I miss anything?

This is my file in sites-available:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name refugium-romontberg.ch;

    location = /favicon.ico {
        access_log off;
        log_not_found off;
    }

    location /media/ {
        alias /home/refugium/refugium/media/;
    }

    location /static/ {
        alias /home/refugium/refugium/staticfiles/;
    }


    location / {
        client_max_body_size 200M;
        include proxy_params;
        proxy_pass http://unix:/run/gunicorn.sock;
    }
}

Thanks