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

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