title: 403 Forbidden on Rails app w/ Nginx, Passenger
body: <p>First off, apologies: I know the 403 Forbidden question is a common one for Rails/Nginx installs, but none of the answers I've read so far have solved it for me.</p>
  
  <p>Disclaimer: This is my first time deploying a Rails app somewhere that isn't Heroku. Please be gentle. ;)</p>
  
  <p>Situation: I have a Rails app running on an Ubuntu 12.04 server, running Nginx (installed with Passenger).</p>
  
  <p>I've deployed my app to my server correctly, but when I attempt to access the site, I receive a 403 Forbidden error.</p>
  
  <p>Checking my error logs, I see:</p>
  
  <pre><code>2013/10/23 22:47:01 [error] 27954#0: *105 directory index of "/var/www/colepeters.com/current/public/" is forbidden, client: 50.3…server: colepeters.com, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", host: "colepeters.com"
  2013/10/23 22:47:10 [error] 27954#0: *106 directory index of "/var/www/colepeters.com/current/public/" is forbidden, client: 184…server: colepeters.com, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", host: "colepeters.com"
  2013/10/23 22:47:12 [error] 27954#0: *107 directory index of "/var/www/colepeters.com/current/public/" is forbidden, client: 151…server: colepeters.com, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", host: "colepeters.com"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, when checking permissions on this directory, I see that the user I have setup to use Nginx had both read and execute permissions on it.</p>
  
  <p>Here's the relevant info from my nginx.conf:</p>
  
  <pre><code>user  XXXX;
  worker_processes  1;
  
  #error_log  logs/error.log;
  #error_log  logs/error.log  notice;
  #error_log  logs/error.log  info;
  
  #pid        logs/nginx.pid;
  
  
  events {
      worker_connections  1024;
  }
  
  
  http {
      passenger_root /home/cole/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.0.0-p247/gems/passenger-4.0.21;
      passenger_ruby /home/cole/.rvm/wrappers/ruby-2.0.0-p247/ruby;
  
      include       mime.types;
      default_type  application/octet-stream;
  
      #log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
      #                  '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
      #                  '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
  
      #access_log  logs/access.log  main;
  
      sendfile        on;
      #tcp_nopush     on;
  
      #keepalive_timeout  0;
      keepalive_timeout  65;
  
      #gzip  on;
  
      server {
         listen       80;
          server_name  colepeters.com www.colepeters.com;
          passenger_enabled on;
          root /var/www/colepeters.com/current/public/;
          rails_env production;
  
          #charset koi8-r;
  
          #access_log  logs/host.access.log  main;
  
          location / {
            root   /var/www/colepeters.com/current/public;
            index  index.html index.htm;
            # autoindex on;
          }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would greatly appreciate any help on resolving this. Thanks!</p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE</strong>
  I have since corrected the erroneus passenger_ruby path, but the 403 Forbidden is persisting, even after restarting Nginx.</p>