Cherokee: accessing uwsgi configuration file

Question

I'm running into a permissions problem with Cherokee+uWSGI on Ubuntu Server 13.10 intended for a Django production environment. When I start uWSGI manually as root user prior to launching cherokee, everything goes smooth:

sudo uwsgi --ini /home/instytut21/instytut21l/instytut21/uwsgi.ini

But when I try to access the site through the server (running as www-data) without that, I keep getting a 503 Service Unavailable response and the following message in the logs:

sudo cat /var/log/cherokee/instytut21.error.log
realpath() of /home/instytut21/instytut21.pl/instytut21/uwsgi.ini failed:
[core/utils.c line 3574]

I've spent a good while trying to figure out what causes the problem. I've tried giving ownership to $USER:www-data and www-data:www-data with all kinds of file permissions ranging from 600 to 777.

I don't want to run the server as root for security reasons. How can I make the ini file accessible to cherokee?

Answer 1

I finally found a solution to a similar problem at www-data permissions? . I slightly modified it and solved my problem by executing the following commands.

Own the whole directory by me and group www-data:

sudo chown -R $USER:www-data /home/instytut21/instytut21.pl/

Grant all permissions to the group:

sudo chmod -R g+rwx /home/instytut21/instytut21.pl/

Ensure all uploaded filed get the same permissions:

sudo chmod -R g+s /home/instytut21/instytut21.pl/