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Nginx Serve Static Files from /root
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NOTE: It is not advisable to do this, use /var/www/ or similar directories to store your static files.

Okay, now if you must keep your files in /root then follow along.

Consider the static files are in /root/site/static/ path.

  1. Run sudo chmod -R 0755 /root
  2. Run sudo chmod -R 0755 /root/site
  3. Run sudo chown -R "$USER":www-data /root/site (replace www-data with the username of your nginx user with whatever user is used in nginx.conf usually located at /etc/nginx)
  4. Restart Nginx, now your static files should be accessible.
  5. Use namei -l /root/site/static/somefile to check if necessary permissions are set in case of issues.
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