Nginx permission denied while loading virtual host file - Fedora 21 - ruby-on-rails

Question

So I just installed nginx and everything works well for a start and I get the default nginx welcome message on my vps running fedora 21. Then when I try adding virtual hosts for my rails application, for some reason nginx is unable to load my virtual host file. It throws a permission denied error which I can't trace why its thrown. Tried everything possible but nothing seems to change.
nginx.conf
# For more information on configuration, see:
# * Official English Documentation: http://nginx.org/en/docs/
# * Official Russian Documentation: http://nginx.org/ru/docs/
user nginx;
worker_processes 1;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
#error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log notice;
#error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log info;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;
#keepalive_timeout 0;
keepalive_timeout 65;
#gzip on;
index index.html index.htm;
# Load modular configuration files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory.
# See http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#include
# for more information.
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
# Load virtual host conf files. (line 44 below)
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
server {
listen 80 default_server;
server_name localhost;
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
#charset koi8-r;
#access_log /var/log/nginx/host.access.log main;
# Load configuration files for the default server block.
include /etc/nginx/default.d/*.conf;
location / {
}
# redirect server error pages to the static page /40x.html
#
error_page 404 /404.html;
location = /40x.html {
}
# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
#
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
}
}
}
myblog(/etc/nginx/sites-available/myblog)
upstream thin{
server 127.0.0.1:3000;
server 127.0.0.1:3001;
}
server {
listen 80;
# server_name www.sitename.com;
# rewrite ^/(.*) http://sitename.com/$1 permanent;
}
server {
listen 80;
# server_name sitename.com;
access_log /home/deployer/nginx-access.log;
error_log /home/deployer/nginx-error.log;
root /home/deployer/apps/myblog/current/public/;
index index.html;
location ^~ /assets/ {
gzip_static on;
expires max;
add_header Cache-Control public;
}
location / {
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_redirect off;
if (-f $request_filename/index.html) {
rewrite (.*) $1/index.html break;
}
if (-f $request_filename.html) {
rewrite (.*) $1.html break;
}
if (!-f $request_filename) {
proxy_pass http://thin;
break;
}
}
}
The sites-enabled folder is symliked to the sites-available folder. On restarting nginx, I get this error
nginx: [emerg] open() "/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/myblog" failed (13: Permission denied) in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:44
Permissions of the myblog virtual host file
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1112 Jun 1 10:58 /etc/nginx/sites-available/myblog
Is there something i'm missing? I'm not sure why nginx cannot load my file. Thanks!