Warning failed to open stream permission denied fatal error require_once PHP + NginX + RHEL in VMware
Context: Set up NginX with php.fpm on a virtual RHEL 7.3. I'm able to open http://hostname/webcon/index.php if it contains plain html or simple php. However, when I use require_once (I've checked the path), I'm getting the below error.
Warning: require_once(/mnt/data/service/common/dbconfig.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /mnt/data/service/webcon/user.php on line 7
Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '/mnt/data/service/common/dbconfig.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /mnt/data/service/webcon/user.php on line 7
Here is the snippet of my www.conf in /php-fpm.d
; Unix user/group of processes
; Note: The user is mandatory. If the group is not set, the default user's group
; will be used.
; RPM: apache Choosed to be able to access some dir as httpd
user = apache
; RPM: Keep a group allowed to write in log dir.
group = apache
Here is the snippet of my nginx.conf in /etc/nginx
user apache;
worker_processes auto;
error_log /mnt/data/service/caldav/logs/error.log debug;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
ps -aux | grep nginx shows:
root 43982 0.0 0.0 58756 1064 ? Ss 15:07 0:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx
apache 43983 0.0 0.0 61340 2624 ? S 15:07 0:00 nginx: worker process
root 44199 0.0 0.0 112648 960 pts/1 S+ 15:23 0:00 grep --color=auto nginx
I have also assigned chmod 777 to all the parents/sub-folders required. All of them are owned by root/root for now. Not sure what else I need to do. I have tried in vain all the answers/suggestions I've found while Googling..
Edit 1:
Tried changing user:group to www-data. Get the error below.
Oct 26 15:32:25 nixs systemd[1]: Starting The PHP FastCGI Process Manager...
Oct 26 15:32:25 nixs php-fpm[44320]: [26-Oct-2017 15:32:25] ERROR: [pool www] cannot get uid for user 'www-data'
Oct 26 15:32:25 nixs php-fpm[44320]: [26-Oct-2017 15:32:25] ERROR: FPM initialization failed
Oct 26 15:32:25 nixs systemd[1]: php-fpm.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=78/n/a
Oct 26 15:32:25 nixs systemd[1]: Failed to start The PHP FastCGI Process Manager.
Oct 26 15:32:25 nixs systemd[1]: Unit php-fpm.service entered failed state.
Oct 26 15:32:25 nixs systemd[1]: php-fpm.service failed.
Edit 2:
Edit 3:
File permissions are 644. Directories are set to 755.
you did CHMOD 777 or CHMOD -R 777 , if youd have executed the first one I suggest you to do the second one.
If chmod is not working, maybe you need to do a CHOWN to assign the user in your your folder and subfolder like this : CHOWN -R apache:apache /mnt/data/...