SELinux Apache and Symbolic Links...GGGrrrr

[Another Sillyname]

 Hi All

OK I've been playing with this for nearly two days now and cannot seem
to get it working at all.

In a nutshell.

Standard Apache Server setup...

in /var/www/html I have a subdirectory called reststop and within that
is a symbolic link to a directory at
/mnt/anotherdrive/newpath/nearlythere/reststop

I have set the permissions chcon -R 775 /var/www/html/reststop
I have set the permissions chcon -R 775
/mnt/anotherdrive/newpath/nearlythere/reststop

I have set the se permissions chcon -R -h -t httpd_sys_content_t
/var/www/html/reststop
I have set the se permissions chcon -R -h -t httpd_sys_content_t
/mnt/anotherdrive/newpath/nearlythere/reststop

I have checked the settings using ls -Z and they are correct

I have set the http.conf to allow followsymlinks

If I set selinux to permissive I DO get an error message:-

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Summary:

SELinux is preventing access to files with the label, file_t.

Detailed Description:

[SELinux is in permissive mode. This access was not denied.]

SELinux permission checks on files labeled file_t are being denied. file_t is
the context the SELinux kernel gives to files that do not have a label. This
indicates a serious labeling problem. No files on an SELinux box should ever be
labeled file_t. If you have just added a disk drive to the system you can
relabel it using the restorecon command. For example if you saved the home
directory from a previous installation that did not use SELinux, 'restorecon -R
-v /home' will fix the labels. Otherwise you should relabel the entire file
system.

Allowing Access:

You can execute the following command as root to relabel your computer system:
"touch /.autorelabel; reboot"

Additional Information:

Source Context unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
Target Context unconfined_u:object_r:file_t:s0
Target Objects reststop [ dir ]
Source httpd
Source Path /usr/sbin/httpd
Port <Unknown>
Host secretsquirrel.com
Source RPM Packages httpd-2.2.14-1.fc12
Target RPM Packages
Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.6.32-108.fc12
Selinux Enabled True
Policy Type targeted
Enforcing Mode Permissive
Plugin Name file
Host Name secretsquirrel.com
Platform Linux secretsquirrel.com
2.6.32.11-99.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Apr 5 19:59:38
UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count 1
First Seen Mon 19 Apr 2010 03:45:40 PM BST
Last Seen Mon 19 Apr 2010 03:45:40 PM BST
Local ID yadayadayada
Line Numbers

Raw Audit Messages

node=secretsquirrel.com type=AVC msg=audit(1288463622.694:23321): avc:
denied { read } for pid=3605 comm="httpd" name="reststop" dev=dm-0
ino=340012822 scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=dir

node=secretsquirrel.com type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1288463622.694:23321):
arch=c000003e syscall=2 success=yes exit=16 a0=7f2f691d91c0 a1=90800
a2=7f2f691d5198 a3=7f2f691da150 items=0 ppid=3600 pid=3605 auid=500
uid=48 gid=489 euid=48 suid=48 fsuid=48 egid=489 sgid=489 fsgid=489
tty=(none) ses=2 comm="httpd" exe="/usr/sbin/httpd"
subj=unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 key=(null)

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Why is the error message telling me files are labelled file_t when
they are labelled httpd_sys_content_t? To confirm that I ls -RZ | grep
file_t in the two directories I get no files returned.

What am I missing here guys? and before anyone suggests it I don't
just want to turn selinux off, I want to actually protect my system
properly though.

Thanks in advance