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Asked: 2026-06-10T15:55:38+00:00

Some help would be appreciated – keep getting Forbidden 403 error. Nginx configuration: listen

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Some help would be appreciated – keep getting Forbidden 403 error.
Nginx configuration:

listen       80;
server_name  www.xxx.com;   
passenger_enabled   on;
#charset koi8-r;
#access_log  logs/host.access.log  main;
root   /home/deploy/xxx.com/current;

I’ve deployed with Capistrano, and it was successful (cap deploy)
I’ve googled and not found much help, from those that I tried.
Secondly, I’ve removed my “public” folder, and enabled my “route” in routes.rb.

root to: 'static_pages#home'

Origionally I had the “public” folder in place, but it kept going to “index.html”, not the Rails /Home. I’ve tried this locally and it works perfectly with “rails server” on localhost:3000.

It almost appears as if NGINX does not now how to find or serve up the Rails pages.

Ps. I did review StackOverflow, not luck there.

Any help would be appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yihhaaaaa ok got it!

    The problem seemed to be two things as mentioned in the comments:

    (a) Pre-compilation error; "images" were not loading. Went into
    config/environments/production.db and turned on "true" for asset
    compilation.

    (b) Second thing was because I was developing on Mac OS X, a Javascript Runtime is included by default, whereas my production
    Ubuntu not so. So I added to GemFile – gem "therubyracer".

    And what do you know it works!
    The key was looking in the production.log (/home/deploy/xxx.com/current/log/).
    That shall tell all.

    Cheers

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