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Given that 755 may not be set on the home and user directories (by default they can be 700), it would be more reasonable to adjust this command, because Nginx simply won’t be able to traverse those directories. Possibly on Debian-10 this issue won’t appear, but if someone (for example, me) is using Debian-13, problems will already occur
That statement is correct in general.
If a parent directory lacks execute permission, adding execute permission only to a child directory will not help.
However, in my case the missing execute permission was on the home directory itself, and the command was executed from ~, so it added execute permission to that parent directory. That is why traversal started working for Nginx
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Added read and execute permissions for all users on the web directory:
Why:
Without the execute (x) permission on directories, nginx cannot access files inside them, even if the files themselves are readable.
As a result:
Result:
With correct directory permissions, nginx can properly access the directory and serve index.html