nginx on Ubuntu: Permission denied
If you found these error, run command [alert] could not open error log file: open() "/var/log/nginx/error.log" failed (13: Permission denied) [warn] 1898#0: the "user" directive makes sense only if the master process runs with super-user privileges, ignored in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:1 [emerg] 1898#0: open() "/var/log/nginx/access.log" failed (13: Permission denied) while restarting Nginx and found it to be a cause of SeLinux . Be sure to give a try after either disabling SeLinux or temporarily setting it to Permissive mode using below command setenforce 0