Bug 149990 – SELinux breaks httpd

Bug 149990 - SELinux breaks httpd

Summary:	SELinux breaks httpd

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	httpd (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Joe Orton
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Keywords:	SELinux

Duplicates:	149989 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2005-03-01 06:15 EST by Andrew Gormanly
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:07 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2005-03-02 14:55:47 EST
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Apache config file (41.28 KB, text/plain) 2005-03-01 06:16 EST, Andrew Gormanly	no flags	Details
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Description Andrew Gormanly 2005-03-01 06:15:14 EST

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 06:16:48 EST

Created attachment 111525 [details]
Apache config file

The httpd.conf in question

Comment 2 Andrew Gormanly 2005-03-01 06:18:21 EST

*** Bug 149989 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Andrew Gormanly 2005-03-01 06:19:36 EST

Apologies, I accidentally submitted this one twice.  I've killed the dupe.

Comment 4 Andrew Gormanly 2005-03-01 08:44:51 EST

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 14:55:47 EST

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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