Permission denied - nginx and uwsgi socket

Well I am currently trying to get my django application served using nginx and uwsgi. I am currently using a virtual environment to which uwsgi is installed. However I am currently getting a 502 bad gateway error when attempting to access the page. The Error I am experiencing. 2014/02/27 14:20:48 [crit] 29947#0: *20 connect() to unix:///tmp/uwsgi.sock failed (13: Permission denied) while connecting to upstream, client: 144.136.65.176, server: domainname.com.au, request: "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1", upstream: "uwsgi://unix:///tmp/uwsgi.sock:", host: "www.domainname.com.au" This is my nginx.conf # mysite_nginx.conf # the upstream component nginx needs to connect to upstream django { server unix:///tmp/uwsgi.sock; # for a file socket #server 127.0.0.1:8001; # for a web port socket (we'll use this first) } # configuration of the server server { # the port your site will be served on listen 80; # the domain name it will serve for server_name .domainname.com.au; # substitute your machine's IP address or FQDN charset utf-8; # max upload size client_max_body_size 75M; # adjust to taste # Django media location /media { alias /home/deepc/media; # your Django project's media files - amend as required } location /static { alias /home/deepc/static; # your Django project's static files - amend as required } # Finally, send all non-media requests to the Django server. location / { uwsgi_pass django; include /home/deepc/.virtualenvs/dcwebproj/dcweb/uwsgi_params; # the uwsgi_params file you installed } } Here is my uwsgi.ini file [uwsgi] socket=/tmp/uwsgi.sock chmod-socket=644 uid = www-data gid = www-data chdir=/home/deepc/.virtualenvs/dcwebproj/dcweb module=dcweb.wsgi:application pidfile=/home/deepc/.virtualenvs/dcwebproj/dcweb.pid vacuum=true From what i have read on google its a permissions problem with the www-data group and /tmp/ directory. However I am new to this and have tried to changer the permission level of the folder to no avail. Could someone point me in the right direction? Is this a permissions problem. Also is it ok practice to put the sock file in tmp directory? Thanks