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NGINX: Error 403: Forbidden

I am trying to set up a nginx server to serve a static website. It is giving me 403 Forbidden. I have tried sudo chown -R nginx:nginx * in the /var/www/ directory and checked my config file. How can I get nginx to stop showing this error and serve my site properly? Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

OS: CentOS Stream 9

Config:

/etc/nginx/conf.d/kiwisky.net.conf:

server {
    listen         80;
    listen         [::]:80;
    server_name    kiwisky.net www.kiwisky.net;
    root           /var/www/kiwisky.net;
    index          home.html;

    gzip             on;
    gzip_comp_level  3;
    gzip_types       text/plain text/css application/javascript image/*;
}

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I have finally fixed it!

Instructions:

cd /var/www
sudo chmod -R =rx /var/www/*
sudo chown -R nginx:nginx *
sudo systemctl restart nginx

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