Bug 149990 - SELinux breaks httpd
Summary: SELinux breaks httpd
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: httpd   
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Version: 4.0
Hardware: i386 Linux
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Assignee: Joe Orton
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Keywords: SELinux
: 149989 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2005-03-01 11:15 UTC by Andrew Gormanly
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-03-02 19:55:47 UTC
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2005-03-01 11:16 UTC, Andrew Gormanly 		no flags Details
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Description Andrew Gormanly 2005-03-01 11:15:14 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.3) Gecko/20050104 Red Hat/1.4.3-3.0.7

Description of problem:
Having upgraded our web server to RHEL 4 AS, httpd refuses to start with SELinux enabled.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
httpd-2.0.52-9.ent

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. service httpd start
2.
3.
  

Actual Results:  Apache fails to start with error message "DocumentRoot must be a directory".

Expected Results:  Apache starts normally and serves our sites.

Additional info:

The problem is one of directory nesting.  Our sites are held under
/home/www/cmmp /home/www/nano-science/nano-mag etc.

Nothing nested deeper than one level under /home will work, but errors are only
produced for those on the second level of nesting: e.g. a site in /home works, 
as does one in /home/www but one in /home/www/cmmp does not.  A site in 
/home/www/nano-science produces the error message, but one in 
/home/www/nano-science/nano-mag does not.

Turning off SELinux at boot with boot parameter selinux=0 fixes this, but is 
obviously not a nice solution...
Comment 1 Andrew Gormanly 2005-03-01 11:16:48 UTC 
Created attachment 111525 [details]
Apache config file

The httpd.conf in question
Comment 2 Andrew Gormanly 2005-03-01 11:18:21 UTC 
*** Bug 149989 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Andrew Gormanly 2005-03-01 11:19:36 UTC 
Apologies, I accidentally submitted this one twice.  I've killed the dupe.
Comment 4 Andrew Gormanly 2005-03-01 13:44:51 UTC 
Solved with:

chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /home/www

Not sure if this is the best way to do this...
Comment 5 Joe Orton 2005-03-02 19:55:47 UTC 
Yes, that's the correct method.  You might be interested to read the following
guide, regarding SELinux/Apache integration.  It mostly applies to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4; a version specific for RHEL4 is in the works:

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-apache-fc3/
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