Selinux .vs. Apache

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Sat Nov 29 23:59:15 UTC 2008


Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> When I install a new version of Fedora I leave Selinux on until
> it prevents me from doing something important.
> This time Selinux caused Apache to fail reading its configuration
> file where I specified the document root.  Once again, as always,
> off with Selinux.
> 
> I don't know if Linux really needs Selinux.  If it does, it
> needs something that doesn't get in the way of normal
> system functions.
> 

Take a peek at the presentation on SELinux I did for Colorado Software 
Summit at http://people.redhat.com/tcameron - I cover putting Apache 
stuff in the wrong location and talk about how to get around it.

-- 
Thomas




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