Well that was it. You can't believe how many hours I wasted on that.
Thanks. Double thanks.
I'm going to mention this in the Digital Ocean help pages.

I disabled selinx, but I have a book laying around on how to set it up.
Eh, it is on the list.

On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:17:18 +0300
Aziz Rozyev <arozyev@nginx.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> have you checked this with disabled selinux ?
>
> br,
> Aziz.
>
>
>
>
>
> > On 20 Dec 2017, at 11:07, lists@lazygranch.com wrote:
> >
> > I'm setting up a web server on a Centos 7 VPS. I'm relatively sure I
> > have the firewalls set up properly since I can see my browser
> > requests in the access and error log. That said, I have file
> > permission problem.
> >
> > nginx 1.12.2
> > Linux servername 3.10.0-693.5.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Oct 20
> > 20:32:50 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >
> >
> > nginx.conf (with comments removed for brevity and my domain name
> > remove because google)
> > -------
> > user nginx;
> > worker_processes auto;
> > error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
> > pid /run/nginx.pid;
> >
> > events {
> > worker_connections 1024;
> > }
> >
> > http {
> > log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local]
> > "$request" ' '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
> > '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
> >
> > access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
> >
> > sendfile on;
> > tcp_nopush on;
> > tcp_nodelay on;
> > keepalive_timeout 65;
> > types_hash_max_size 2048;
> >
> > include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
> > default_type application/octet-stream;
> >
> > server {
> > listen 80;
> > server_name mydomain.com www.mydomain.com;
> >
> > return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
> > }
> >
> > server {
> > listen 443 ssl http2;
> > server_name mydomain.com www.mydomain.com;
> > ssl_dhparam /etc/ssl/certs/dhparam.pem;
> > root /usr/share/nginx/html/mydomain.com/public_html;
> >
> > ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.com/fullchain.pem; #
> > managed by Certbot
> > ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.com/privkey.pem;
> > # managed by Certbot ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
> > ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
> >
> > location / {
> > root /usr/share/nginx/html/mydomain.com/public_html;
> > index index.html index.htm;
> > }
> > #
> > error_page 404 /404.html;
> > location = /40x.html {
> > }
> > #
> > error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
> > location = /50x.html {
> > }
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> > I have firefox set up with no cache and do not save history.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > access log:
> >
> > mypi - - [20/Dec/2017:07:46:44 +0000] "GET /index.html HTTP/2.0"
> > 403 169 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
> > Firefox/52.0" "-"
> >
> > myip - - [20/Dec/2017:07:48:44 +0000] "GET /index.html
> > HTTP/2.0" 403 169 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0)
> > Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0" "-"
> > -------------------------------
> > error log:
> >
> > 2017/12/20 07:46:44 [error] 10146#0: *48 open()
> > "/usr/share/nginx/html/mydomain.com/public_html/index.html" failed
> > (13: Permission denied), client: myip, server: mydomain.com,
> > request: "GET /index.html HTTP/2.0", host: "mydomain.com"
> > 2017/12/20 07:48:44 [error] 10146#0: *48 open()
> > "/usr/share/nginx/html/mydomain.com/public_html/index.html" failed
> > (13: Permission denied), client: myip, server: mydomain.com,
> > request: "GET /index.html HTTP/2.0", host: "mydomain.com"
> >
> >
> > Directory permissions:
> > For now, I made eveything 755 with ownership nginx:nginx I did chmod
> > and chown with the -R option
> >
> > /etc/nginx:
> > drwxr-xr-x. 4 nginx nginx 4096 Dec 20 07:39 nginx
> >
> > /usr/share/nginx:
> > drwxr-xr-x. 4 nginx nginx 33 Dec 15 08:47 nginx
> >
> > /var/log:
> > drwx------. 2 nginx nginx 4096 Dec 20 07:51 nginx
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > systemctl status nginx
> > ● nginx.service - The nginx HTTP and reverse proxy server
> > Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled;
> > vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Wed
> > 2017-12-20 04:21:37 UTC; 3h 37min ago Process: 10145
> > ExecReload=/bin/kill -s HUP $MAINPID (code=exited,
> > status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 9620 (nginx)
> > CGroup: /system.slice/nginx.service ├─ 9620 nginx: master
> > process /usr/sbin/nginx └─10146 nginx: worker process
> >
> >
> > Dec 20 07:18:33 servername systemd[1]: Reloaded The nginx HTTP and
> > reverse proxy server.
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > ps aux | grep nginx
> > root 9620 0.0 0.3 71504 3848 ? Ss 04:21 0:00
> > nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx nginx 10146 0.0 0.4
> > 72004 4216 ? S 07:18 0:00 nginx: worker process
> > root 10235 0.0 0.0 112660 952 pts/1 S+ 08:01 0:00
> > grep ngin
> >
> > -----------------------------------
> > firewall-cmd --zone=public --list-all
> > public (active)
> > target: default
> > icmp-block-inversion: no
> > interfaces: eth0
> > sources:
> > services: ssh dhcpv6-client http https
> > ports:
> > protocols:
> > masquerade: no
> > forward-ports:
> > source-ports:
> > icmp-blocks:
> > rich rules:
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