# 403 Forbidden error at my domain

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/403-forbidden-error-at-my-domain/22355>\
**Category:** Installation\
**Created:** [May 1, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/403-forbidden-error-at-my-domain/22355 "2021-05-01T14:11:19Z")\
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I’m new Ghost user. Pleased meet you guys.

I trying start Ghost. Seems I sucessed installed Ghost at my vps server but when I open [mywebsite.com/g2](http://mywebsite.com/g2) which I installed it. 403 Forbidden error show up.

```
What’s your URL? This is the easiest way for others to debug your issue
mywebsite.com/g2

What version of Ghost are you using?
Ghost-CLI version: 1.16.3
Ghost version: 4.3.3

What configuration?
OS - Centos 7.9
RAM - 2 GB
Nginx 1.19.10

What browser?
Firefox and WaterFox 

What errors or information do you see in the console?
ghost doctor shows no error

What steps could someone else take to reproduce the issue you’re having?
I installed Ghost in /var/www/mywebsite.com/html/g2
I installed cerbot SSL. and I can display index.html file at https://mywebsite.com/

```

Here is my /var/www/html/g2/config.development  
Could you teach me what is wrong please?

{  
“url”: “h t t p s : / / m y w e b i s i t e .com/g2”,  
“server”: {  
“port”: 443,  
},  
“database”: {  
“client”: “sqlite3”,  
“connection”: {  
“filename”: “/var/www/html/g2/content/data/ghost-local.db”  
}  
},  
“mail”: {  
“transport”: “Direct”  
},  
“logging”: {  
“transports”: [  
“file”,  
“stdout”  
]  
},  
“process”: “local”,  
“paths”: {  
“contentPath”: “/var/www/html/g2/content”  
}  
}

And Here is /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

user nginx;  
worker\_processes 1;

error\_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;  
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;

events {  
worker\_connections 1024;  
}

http {  
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;  
default\_type application/octet-stream;

```
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;

keepalive_timeout 65;

#gzip on;

include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;

```

server {  
listen 443 ssl;  
server\_name m y w e b i s i t e . com;  
charset UTF-8;  
ssl\_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/mywebisite.com/fullchain.pem;  
ssl\_certificate\_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/mywebisite.com/privkey.pem;

```
root /var/www/html;

```

location / {  
index index.php index.html index.htm;  
}

location ^~ /blog {  
proxy\_set\_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy\_add\_x\_forwarded\_for;  
proxy\_set\_header Host $http\_host;  
proxy\_set\_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;  
proxy\_pass [http://127.0.0.1:2368](http://127.0.0.1:2368);  
}

location ~ .php$ {  
fastcgi\_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;  
fastcgi\_index index.php;  
fastcgi\_param SCRIPT\_FILENAME $document\_root$fastcgi\_script\_name;  
include fastcgi\_params;  
}  
}  
}