title: nginx: 403 forbidden when php files in separate directory
body: <p>I've successfully installed nginx that uses PHP-FPM but unfortunately I'm having some trouble when loading my php files from a different directory. All my files are located in subdirectories in /var/www/html (e.g. all css-files are located in /var/www/html/css, all javascript-files are located in /var/www/html/js, all php-files are located in /var/www/html/php).
  According to this, I changed the root directory path for my php files to /var/www/html/php:</p>
  
  <pre><code>server {
      listen 80 default_server;
      listen [::]:80 default_server;
  
      # SSL configuration
      #
      # listen 443 ssl default_server;
      # listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
      #
      # Note: You should disable gzip for SSL traffic.
      # See: https://bugs.debian.org/773332
      #
      # Read up on ssl_ciphers to ensure a secure configuration.
      # See: https://bugs.debian.org/765782
      #
      # Self signed certs generated by the ssl-cert package
      # Don't use them in a production server!
      #
      # include snippets/snakeoil.conf;
  
      root /var/www/html;
  
      # Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
      index index.html index.htm index.php home.php;
  
      server_name _;
  
      location / {
              # First attempt to serve request as file, then
              # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
              try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
      }
  
      # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
      #
      location ~ \.php$ {
              root /var/www/html/php;
  
              include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
  
      #       # With php7.0-cgi alone:
      #       fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
              # With php7.0-fpm:
              fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Unfortunately, when accessing my nginx server using my web browser, I'm getting error 403 (Forbidden). When accessing my index.php (<a href="http://192.168.2.109/index.php" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://192.168.2.109/index.php</a>) directly, everything works fine. So, I think it means that the file permissions are correct but nginx isn't able to index the /var/www/html/php directory. Furthermore, /var/log/nginx/error.log includes:</p>
  
  <p>2017/05/28 07:49:56 [error] 13678#13678: *1 directory index of "/var/www/html/" is forbidden, client: 192.168.2.101, server: _, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", host: "192.168.2.109"</p>
  
  <p>I already tried to enable <em>autoindex</em> and add the <em>index</em> specifier in the "location ~ .php$ {" section without success. The result is the same :(</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone has an idea what I'm doing wrong/missing here? All suggestions in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19285355/nginx-403-error-directory-index-of-folder-is-forbidden">Nginx 403 error: directory index of [folder] is forbidden</a> didn't solve my problem.</p>