FC3 Apache problem

[Joe Orton]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 01:38:35PM -0500, Avinash Sridhar wrote:
> hi,
> I insatlled httpd using yum earlier this month and went about the
> process of setting up a web server on my local machine. All went
> well,except that I wanted to change the DocumentRoot directory to an
> external usb drive. After googling a lot i found out that it was a bug
> issue with selinux having a policy for httpd, so the bug fix was given
> as
> 
> chcon -R system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t /my/new/docroot
> or
> setsebool -P httpd_disable_trans=1

Which did you do?

> I did this and it worked like a charm and I had no problems what so
> ever. Now however I had to repartition my external disk but the data
> on it was all backup and i restored the drive as usual.Around the same
> time I had kept my fedora up to date using up2date. Now however when i
> follow all the same procedures before I am not able to set up my
> site..the error in the error_log file in /etc/httpd/error_log says
> "[Tue Mar 22 13:11:24 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Symbolic link
> not allowed: /var/www"
> 
> my /var/www is a symbolic link to the external path. I have
> FollowSymLinks in the Options for both Directories "/ and
> /var/www/html"

This could be a permissions issue: is the symlink readable by the Apache
user?  If you are still running with the httpd transition enabled, do 
you get any new avc failures in /var/log/messages?

joe