On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 03:38:22PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: > I have a strange problem on Fedora Core 4. I have edited my httpd.conf, > and now apache will not start when i use the /etc/init.d/httpd script, > but if do a configtest it says ok, and if i start apache manually with > /usr/sbin/httpd it allso works just fine. This is an SELinux issue. In FC4, SELinux policy is only applied if httpd is started via the init script. You'd have to correctly label the docroots outside /var/www so that the SELinux policy will allow access; see the following guides for more information: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-apache-fc3/ http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc3/ e.g. something like this should work: # chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /home/www/ ... > > <VirtualHost 192.168.0.253> > > DocumentRoot /home/www/html > > </VirtualHost> Regards, joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx