Nginx is throwing an 403 Forbidden on Static Files

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I have a django app, python 2.7 with gunicorn and nginx. Nginx is throwing a `403 Forbidden Error`, if I try to view anything in my `static` folder @: ``` /home/ubuntu/virtualenv/myapp/myapp/homelaunch/static ``` nginx config(`/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/myapp`) contains: ``` server { listen 80; server_name *.myapp.com; access_log /home/ubuntu/virtualenv/myapp/error/access.log; error_log /home/ubuntu/virtualenv/myapp/error/error.log warn; connection_pool_size 2048; fastcgi_buffer_size 4K; fastcgi_buffers 64 4k; root /home/ubuntu/virtualenv/myapp/myapp/homelaunch/; location /static/ { alias /home/ubuntu/virtualenv/myapp/myapp/homelaunch/static/; } location / { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8001; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; add_header P3P 'CP="ALL DSP COR PSAa PSDa OUR NOR ONL UNI COM NAV"'; } } ``` error.log contains: ``` 2013/11/24 23:00:16 [error] 18243#0: *277 open() "/home/ubuntu/virtualenv/myapp/myapp/homelaunch/static/img/t…

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It appears the user nginx is running as (nginx?) is missing privileges to read the local file `/home/ubuntu/virtualenv/myapp/myapp/homelaunch/static/img/templated/home/img.png`. You probably wanna check file permissions as well as permissions on the directories in the hierarchy.

Nginx is throwing an 403 Forbidden on Static Files

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