Permission denied - nginx and uwsgi socket

Question

Well I am currently trying to get my django application served using nginx and uwsgi. I am currently using a virtual environment to which uwsgi is installed. However I am currently getting a 502 bad gateway error when attempting to access the page.

The Error I am experiencing.

2014/02/27 14:20:48 [crit] 29947#0: *20 connect() to unix:///tmp/uwsgi.sock failed (13: Permission denied) while connecting to upstream, client: 144.136.65.176, server: domainname.com.au, request: "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1", upstream: "uwsgi://unix:///tmp/uwsgi.sock:", host: "www.domainname.com.au"

This is my nginx.conf

    # mysite_nginx.conf

# the upstream component nginx needs to connect to
upstream django {
    server unix:///tmp/uwsgi.sock; # for a file socket
    #server 127.0.0.1:8001; # for a web port socket (we'll use this first)
}

# configuration of the server
server {
    # the port your site will be served on
    listen      80;
    # the domain name it will serve for
    server_name .domainname.com.au; # substitute your machine's IP address or FQDN
    charset     utf-8;

    # max upload size
    client_max_body_size 75M;   # adjust to taste

    # Django media
    location /media  {
        alias /home/deepc/media;  # your Django project's media files - amend as required
    }

    location /static {
        alias /home/deepc/static; # your Django project's static files - amend as required
    }

    # Finally, send all non-media requests to the Django server.
    location / {
        uwsgi_pass  django;
        include     /home/deepc/.virtualenvs/dcwebproj/dcweb/uwsgi_params; # the uwsgi_params file you installed
    }
}

Here is my uwsgi.ini file

[uwsgi]
socket=/tmp/uwsgi.sock
chmod-socket=644
uid = www-data
gid = www-data

chdir=/home/deepc/.virtualenvs/dcwebproj/dcweb
module=dcweb.wsgi:application
pidfile=/home/deepc/.virtualenvs/dcwebproj/dcweb.pid
vacuum=true

From what i have read on google its a permissions problem with the www-data group and /tmp/ directory. However I am new to this and have tried to changer the permission level of the folder to no avail. Could someone point me in the right direction? Is this a permissions problem.

Also is it ok practice to put the sock file in tmp directory?

Thanks

Answer 1

I think you just need to change your socket file to 666(664 is ok with www-data), or remove it and run uwsgi server again.

In my uwsgi.ini:

chmod-socket = 664
uid = www-data
gid = www-data