I have my application running on an ec2 instance.
I can successfully ssh into my application but when I cd in to the correct folder and run ls I get the following error:
ls: cannot open directory '.': Permission denied
It seems like it has something to do with my user permissions because running the application also throws a 403 Forbidden error.
The permissions for my application folder are as follows:
d-wx-wx--x 17 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Apr 20 10:53 application-name
Do I need to change this to something else to make it work? And how?
This error makes sense if you don't have enough privileges to read that directory. try changing the permissions for current user or change the access mode to global i.e 777 For example:
sudo bash
chmod 775 .
This is basically caused when the current user doesn't have enough permission to read/write/execute the contents of that directory.
Here's how you can fix it:
To grant the user permission to just the current directory, you could do this:
sudo chmod 775 directory_name
OR
sudo chmod a+rwx,o-w directory_name
To grant the user permission to the current directory, it's subdirectories and files, you could do this:
sudo chmod -R 775 directory_name
OR
sudo chmod -R a+rwx,o-w directory_name
Note:
chmod means change mode or in a more literal sense change access permissions.-R means change files and directories recursively.a means all usersr means read permissionw means write permissionx means execute permissiono means others+ means add- means remove.So it means recursively add read, write and execute permissions to everyone, but then remove write permissions from others.
That's all.
I hope this helps
You don't have read permission on your folder.
Run chmod 775 application-name to allow read in your folder.
You'll find additional info about chmod at this link: https://kb.iu.edu/d/abdb