[ale] Apache

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 17:22 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote: 
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Terry Bailey <terry at bitlinx.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just loaded CentOS 5.4 into a server.  The web page will not come
> > up.  So I cleaned out the error log and tried it once.  At that
> > point, error_log had the following data.
> >
> > [Tue Feb 16 15:31:23 2010] [notice] SELinux policy enabled; httpd
> > running as context user_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
> > [Tue Feb 16 15:31:23 2010] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled
> > (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
> > [Tue Feb 16 15:31:23 2010] [notice] Digest: generating secret for
> > digest authentication ...
> > [Tue Feb 16 15:31:23 2010] [notice] Digest: done
> > [Tue Feb 16 15:31:23 2010] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) configured
> > -- resuming normal operation
> >
> >
> >
> > It looks like it has something to do with SELinux.  The httpd.conf
> > file says that Apache is running as apache.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Terry Bailey
> >
> >
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> SELinux needs to be disable unless you are use to dealing with it.
> SELinux needs to be told that it ok to run Apache. If not, it will not
> run.

That's a rather generic statement.

Have you moved where the Apache files are?  If you moved it out
of /var/www you may need to re-tag things.  There are instructions for
doing that somewhere.  There's some selinux command for doing that.

Mike
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