# Gitea Not Creating Socket File

**URL:** <https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-not-creating-socket-file/3068>\
**Category:** Install/Maintain/Configure\
**Created:** [March 13, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-not-creating-socket-file/3068 "2021-03-13T14:42:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![gavinhoward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cc9497/32.png) [@gavinhoward](https://forum.gitea.com/u/gavinhoward)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-not-creating-socket-file/3068/1 "2021-03-13T14:42:43Z")

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Gitea is not creating the `/run/gitea/gitea.socket` file.

I am running Gentoo x86\_64, up-to-date, with a custom `/etc/init.d/gitea` file because the default Gentoo one is broken. I am attempting to use it with `nginx` and have pointed `nginx` to the socket. I have set the protocol as `fcgi+unix`.

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**Author:** ![gavinhoward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cc9497/32.png) [@gavinhoward](https://forum.gitea.com/u/gavinhoward)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2021, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.gitea.com/t/gitea-not-creating-socket-file/3068/2 "2021-03-13T16:49:54Z")

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Gitea is throwing a bunch of errors about not having permissions to `mkdir data`, which it does. I have checked that it does at least 5 times.