Nginx - 403 error only on static files - django

Question

The stack is: Ubuntu // Supervisor // Nginx <--> Gunicorn <--> Django 1.11
Static files folder: /home/sitebiz/sitebiz/static/
Nginx config: /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/site.biz
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
access_log off;
server_name site.biz;
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
#listen 80 ssl;
server_name site.biz;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/site.biz/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/site.biz/privkey.pem;
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
#listen 80;
gzip on;
access_log /var/log/nginx-access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx-error.log;
location /static {
root /home/sitebiz/sitebiz;
internal;
}
location /track {
proxy_set_header X-Forward-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_set_header GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE $geoip_country_code;
proxy_set_header GEOIP_COUNTRY_NAME $geoip_country_name;
proxy_redirect off;
if (!-f $request_filename) {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8899;
break;
}
}
location /income {
proxy_set_header X-Forward-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_set_header GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE $geoip_country_code;
proxy_set_header GEOIP_COUNTRY_NAME $geoip_country_name;
proxy_redirect off;
if (!-f $request_filename) {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8899;
break;
}
}
location / {
proxy_set_header X-Forward-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_set_header GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE $geoip_country_code;
proxy_set_header GEOIP_COUNTRY_NAME $geoip_country_name;
proxy_redirect off;
if (!-f $request_filename) {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
break;
}
}
}
I tried to change the /home/sitebiz/sitebiz/static/ directory and all of its content ownership to sitebiz user and to www-data , but none helped.
Not even Django itself can serve static files and I have no idea why.
From django settings:
SITE_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(name))
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(SITE_ROOT, 'static')
Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

I have no idea, why, but the solution from the POST works fine
Just execute in shell:
sudo chmod o+x /root
If someone could explain this logic - why root folder must have Execute permission - I would be very thankful (and upvoteful)