Getting 404 on any text file (including robots.txt) with nginx

Question

I recently moved my CentOS 7 machine from an Apache web server to an nginx web server, and I'm still working out various issues as I learn the in's and out's of nginx. One issue I have stumbled upon is that text files, such as robots.txt, appear to be unaccessible in my public web root directory.

My server block configuration is as follows:

server { listen 80; server_name example.com; root /var/www/example.com/public_html; index index.php; access_log /var/www/example.com/logs/example.com_access.log; error_log /var/www/example.com/logs/example.com_error.log error; location / { index index.php index.html; } location /reports { autoindex on; } location ~ \.php$ { try_files $uri =404; fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; } error_page 404 /var/www/html/404.html; error_page 500 502 503 504 /var/www/html/50x.html; location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ { expires max; log_not_found off; } location /robots.txt { #access_log off; #log_not_found off; } location ~ /\.ht { deny all; } } 

I am confused about why text files would be inaccessible. I figured this was a problem with me using PHP, but I couldn't determine what might be blocking access to the file.

I also can't check my log files (yet) because this server block doesn't seem to be writing to my logs, but that's in another question.

What could be going on here?

Answer 1

I had this issue and I restarted nginx and the problem was solved. No idea what caused it as my other domain's .txt files were working.

service nginx restart;