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So I have a website.

www.example.com directory pointed at /var/www/html/

I can load a webpage at

www.example.com/foo/

The file for that page is at 

/var/www/html/foo/index.html

that index.html has a style sheet and object in the foo folder and tries to request it using 

www.example.com/foo/bar.css

However, bar.css returns 404 not found even though it's at 

/var/www/html/foo/bar.css

What gives? The files have 644 user rights. If index.html can be found shouldn't the other files be too?

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Your folders must be set to file permission 755 using chmod. I successfully got it working after the following steps:

After changing the owner of foo/

$ /var/www/html# chown root foo

and the subfiles to root, as well as changing the chmod of foo/ to 755 

chmod 755 foo

to mimic /var/www/html/ 's permissions, my files became accessible.

Remember to use 

ls -l

in your directory to check for the right file permissions. Also check your access and error logs at /var/log/nginx/ (this is accurate for debian at the very least, since this is what I am using)

If you can't find your log files, use 

find / | grep error.log > results.txt

and open results.txt with your favourite text editor such as vi results.txt (Assuming you're on a server and it's easier to read text files than the terminal).

Thank you to Richard for telling me to check my logs.

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