nginx 403 Forbidden error

Chemmic

Hey Flarum Community,

Im new to Linux/Ubuntu and Im trying to setup Flarum on my VServer.
The installation looks fine so far however I can't access Flarum within my browser.
When I try to access it via myip/flarum I get the following Error:
403 Forbidden, nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)
I looked up alot of posts about this issue but none of them helped me to solve it.
posts I tried:
this
and this
aaaand this.

The following error appears in my nginx error log file:
2020/11/30 20:11:11 [error] 27653#27653: *390 directory index of "/var/www/html/flarum/" is forbidden, client: 79.249.80.53, server: _, request: "GET /flarum/ HTTP/1.1", host: "81.169.234.99"

My flarum.conf in the nginx sites-available folder looks like this :
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
root /var/www/html/flarum;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name example.com www.example.com;

#add php suport (make sure you have php-fpm installed for it to work)
location ~* .php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^.+.php(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_index index.php;
}

include /var/www/html/flarum/.nginx.conf;

}
(I also linked it with sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/flarum.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/)

I also tried to implement a Custom Path like explained here .

This might be a really nooby question since, as I said above, Im really new to Linux and it's my first time really messing around with it
I hope someone with knowledge and patience can help me out! 🙂

Thanks to everyone replying,
Chemmic

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Chemmic if you recently changed the path of the install, can you try php flarum cache:clear using cli in the Flarum root directory ?

Chemmic

Hey phenomlab,
Im getting the following error triyng to execute the command:

Kakifrucht

Chemmic root /var/www/html/flarum

Your root should be the public folder inside of your Flarum install.

Chemmic

when I run the command in var/www/html/flarum/public I get "Could not open input file: flarum".
The public folder is empty as well since I tried this to customize paths:
"Simply move all the files inside the public directory (including .htaccess) into the directory you want to serve Flarum from"
the files from the public folder are in var/www/html/flarum

askvortsov

If you're on a VPS, you should be reconfiguring your document root instead of moving stuff out of public. I would recommend starting the installation over (so you have a clean slate to work with). Then, make sure you set your root in nginx config to the public folder.

Chemmic

I have setup flarum now again and it looks fine so far:

However I still get the same error when trying to access flarum via my websbrowser:

When I run the command php flarum cache:clear in my flarum public folder I still get the error "Could not open input file flarum"
My flarum.conf looks like the following:

askvortsov

Chemmic the command php flarum cache:clear in my flarum public folder

The public folder is just there to be the document root. CLI commands for Flarum and composer should be run from the main root.

Chemmic

When running the command in the flarum folder I still get this error:

askvortsov

Have you installed flarum via the GUI yet? Why are you trying to clear cache?

Chemmic

Im not sure what you mean with GUI, Do you mean the flarum configuration GUI you can access with the webbrowser? If so thats exactly the issue im facing the whole time, I can't access it since im getting a nginx 403 Forbidden error.
I was trying to clear the cache because phenomlab told me to - which didnt worked back then and I wanted to see if the command works after reinstalling flarum but it still does not

askvortsov

Chemmic ah I see. You won't be able to clear the cache until flarum is installed, but it looks like your error is on the nginx level, not on the flarum level.

Chemmic

Hmh I see, I guess I will try to reinstall with Apache then.. I have no idea what else to try to fix the issue

Chemmic

Yep I guess it was a nginx issue. I deleted the default nginx file in the sites-enabled and I can access the forums now via my localhost/webbrowser. Thanks all for helping 🙂