Nginx trying to open passengerfile.json which doen't exist

Question

I am trying to deploy my rails app(API only) using capistrano to the centos server with Nginx and passenger. When I try to hit the rails application, it says Error opening '/home/user/app/current/Passengerfile.json' for reading: Permission denied (errno=13); This error means that the Nginx worker process (PID 4344, running as UID 984) does not have permission to access this file.

But I don't have passengerfile.json in there and we don't need it.

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 30 '20 at 02:22

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Try adding the below line to your nginx.conf file.

user deploy

Replace deploy by your deploy user name

FYI: I followed these steps to install passenger (Installing passenger from ruby gems(rvm))

answered Jul 30 '20 at 02:22

Prasath Rajasekaran

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Your solution worked for me, but I had to comment out user www-data. Question: Could this be an issue in the future? Or is it possible to add multiple users to nginx.conf? Thanks in advance – Metaphysiker Nov 17 '22 at 12:42

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 03 '20 at 04:46

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It seems that error was occurring because I was trying to deploy my app through root user. Once I created deploy user and deployed it by that user and added:

passenger_user_switching on;
passenger_user deploy;
passenger_group deploy;

to the passenger.conf it worked perfectly.

answered Jul 03 '20 at 04:46

Bishal Shrestha

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Where Can I find passnger.conf? – Prasath Rajasekaran Jul 24 '20 at 16:54
@PrasathRajasekaran You can find it inside the Nginx path. For me it was inside /etc/nginx/conf.d/passenger.conf – Bishal Shrestha Jul 27 '20 at 05:06
Do you mean this fine - mod-http-passenger.conf ? – Prasath Rajasekaran Jul 27 '20 at 05:29
Yes. For me it was passenger.conf but I think it's the same file. – Bishal Shrestha Jul 28 '20 at 03:38

Nginx trying to open passengerfile.json which doen't exist

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