Disabling SELinux is it secure?

Jay Paulson jpaulson at sedl.org
Thu Mar 3 16:39:48 UTC 2005


>> The only thing I haven't tried is to disable SELinux.  Would that fix
>> my problem?  Are there any other things I can try?
>
> you can try disabling selinux just for apache. read the faq here for 
> that
>
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc3/
>
> see if that fixes your problem and post what you awnt to do to the
> fedora-selinux list. developers could guide on you how to setup
> selinux with apache for what you want to do
>

Thanks for the link!

Here's what I did that got everything to work correctly.

First I added apache to my 'www' group I created for multiple users to 
edit a single file.  Next I chmoded -R g+s /var/www/test which is my 
DocumentRoot in apache.

That seems to have solved all my problems with permissions and getting 
the 403 Forbidden error!  Now all I have got to do is get cgi scripts 
to work!

Thanks for everyone's help.  I hope this can help someone in the future 
:)

jay




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