Hi Jim,

On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 04:55:53PM -0700, Jim Taylor wrote:
> This is my server configuration.  I want to display a PDF file.  If I
> out the PDF in /data/images, it displays correctly in my browser
> (Firefoc).  If I put the PDF in /data/documents I get error 403.
> Obviously, I'm doing something stupid.  Is it really impossible to have
> both a documents and an images directory>

[...]
>
>         location /images/ {
>             root /data;
>         }
>         location /documents/ {
>             root /data;
>         }

Let's review the permissions on:

- those two directories, i.e. run
% ls -la /data/images
% ls -la /data/documents

- those two PDF files, i.e. run
% ls -la /data/images/thePDFfile.pdf
% ls -la /data/documents/thePDFfile.pdf

--
Sergey A. Osokin
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