[Help] How to grant file permission to nginx container
Posted: 30 Jun 2026, 12:11
Dear all,
I am a beginner of docker. I built a nginx container and map volume \Volume1\www:\usr\share\nginx\html.
I follows instruction from internet to setup permission of host folder and file. But index.html is still access fail.
Can everyone to help me.
container log and folder file permission as below
2026/06/30 03:32:15 [error] 22#22: *1 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/index.html" failed (13: Permission denied), client: 192.168.1.4, server: localhost, request: "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1", host: "192.168.1.3:40243"
192.168.1.4 - - [30/Jun/2026:03:32:15 +0000] "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1" 403 555 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/149.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/149.0.0.0" "-"
2
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 usera usera 66 Jun 30 11:45 www
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 usera usera 154 Jun 30 09:18 index.html
I am a beginner of docker. I built a nginx container and map volume \Volume1\www:\usr\share\nginx\html.
I follows instruction from internet to setup permission of host folder and file. But index.html is still access fail.
Can everyone to help me.
container log and folder file permission as below
2026/06/30 03:32:15 [error] 22#22: *1 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/index.html" failed (13: Permission denied), client: 192.168.1.4, server: localhost, request: "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1", host: "192.168.1.3:40243"
192.168.1.4 - - [30/Jun/2026:03:32:15 +0000] "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1" 403 555 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/149.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/149.0.0.0" "-"
2
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 usera usera 66 Jun 30 11:45 www
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 usera usera 154 Jun 30 09:18 index.html