On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 5:14 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, 2023-04-23 at 14:56 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 4/23/23 14:50, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I had a look at /var/log/httpd/error_log and found this:
> >
> > httpd: could not open error log file
> > /var/www/bree.org.uk/error.log
> >
> > I rechecked and that file definitely exists and is writable by root
> > (which httpd runs as). However a suspicion arose and I decided to
> > turn
> > off SElinux and reload.
>
> As someone else mentioned, why are you writing logs to the web server
> data directory? There's a directory (/var/log/httpd) that's already
> intended for that. The file context is most likely going to be
> wrong,
> which is why selinux is (rightly) blocking it.
Why? Because being unfamiliar with Apache (and Certbot) I was foolishly
following an online step-by-step guide:
https://www.linuxshelltips.com/install-apache-fedora-linux/
I've since seen the error of my ways and it seems to be working now.
Yeah, first try Fedora docs at
docs.fedoraproject.org. They are
updated regularly. If you have a problem, then ask about it.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/getting-started-with-apac...
Avoid off-site answers. Oftentimes it's just dev2dev answers, with
some dev posting what worked for him when following someone else's
article.
Jeff