Jtdcftul

I installed nginx by following setup guide at digitalocean.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-nginx-on-ubuntu-18-04

The guide had me change root from /var/www/html to /var/www/mydomain/html.

Everything worked well from the setup, but I am recieving 403 error trying to get pagekit working.

http://w3.life/pagekit/

The installer went through all the permission changes needed and when the last one was done a 404 error ensued. The guide said:

example.com: Will respond to requests for example.com and www.example.com.
default: Will respond to any requests on port 80 that do not match the other two blocks.

How do I serve default again? I have pagekit in /var/www/mydomain/html, why can't it find it and why the 403? Permissions are 755/644 and owner is www-data:www-data

sudo cat  /etc/group

[sudo] password for david: 

root:x:0:

daemon:x:1:

bin:x:2:

sys:x:3:

adm:x:4:syslog

tty:x:5:

disk:x:6:

lp:x:7:

mail:x:8:

news:x:9:

uucp:x:10:

man:x:12:

proxy:x:13:

kmem:x:15:

dialout:x:20:

fax:x:21:

voice:x:22:

cdrom:x:24:

floppy:x:25:

tape:x:26:

sudo:x:27:david

audio:x:29:

dip:x:30:

www-data:x:33:

backup:x:34:

operator:x:37:

list:x:38:

irc:x:39:

src:x:40:

gnats:x:41:

shadow:x:42:

utmp:x:43:

video:x:44:

sasl:x:45:

plugdev:x:46:

staff:x:50:

games:x:60:

users:x:100:

nogroup:x:65534:

systemd-journal:x:101:

systemd-network:x:102:

systemd-resolve:x:103:

input:x:104:

crontab:x:105:

syslog:x:106:

messagebus:x:107:

lxd:x:108:

mlocate:x:109:

uuidd:x:110:

ssh:x:111:

landscape:x:112:

david:x:1000:

mysql:x:113:



drwxr-xr-x 3 root  root  4096 Mar  5 10:38 .

drwxr-xr-x 4 root  root  4096 Mar  5 10:38 ..

drwxr-xr-x 3 david david 4096 Mar  5 11:25 html



server {

    listen 80;

    listen [::]:80;

    root /var/www/w3.life/html/pagekit;

    index  index.php index.html index.htm;

    server_name  w3.life www.w3.life;



    client_max_body_size 100M;



    location / {

    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

    }



    location ~ .php$ {

    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;

    fastcgi_pass             unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;

    fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME   

   $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

   }

}

I am going to close this as George who is extremely knowledgeable and helpful, informed me that my configs are all out of whack, Therefore I'm restarting from scratch with the nginx manual and kicking the guides. I'll be back if a simpler config raises issues. Apache was enough and nginx promises to be simpler, once you get the correct understanding.