Switching index's in Nginx via Bash

snowman81 · 08-20-2017, 09:28 PM

So let me just say I'm not a programmer nor am I elegant in any way. I'm a brute force kind of guy. Basically I'm pinging a website to get the ip it is using as it switches between 2. Once I have it I have a bash script that compares it to what I'm expecting and if it matches 1 ip address it moves index file 1 into the /var/www/html directory. If it matches the other it moves index file 2 into it. Right now I'm getting a 403 error. I'm messing around with the nginx.conf file to fix this but there's got to be a better way right?

bathory · 08-21-2017, 01:56 AM

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Right now I'm getting a 403 error. I'm messing around with the nginx.conf file to fix this but there's got to be a better way right?

Take a look at the nginx logs for the 403 (Forbidden) error.
Could be a permissions issue, so make sure the file has 644 attributes and the directory /var/www/html (and those above it) 755.

Regards

snowman81 · 08-24-2017, 07:31 PM

My boss decided it wasn't worth the effort apparently. I'll try to make it work on my own time. Thanks!

Quarind · 08-30-2017, 11:55 AM

If your nginx web-server runs by user nginx or www-data, files in wwwroot need to be with nginx or www-data user permissions.
If your bash script copy files into wwwroot by root (for example), you need set permissions for wwwroot like:

Code:

chown -r www-data:www-data /var/www/html/