Dave Gutteridge wrote:
>>1 - permissions for user apache to access directory.
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>I thought Apache was an application or a service. It's also a user in
>need of rights?
>
>[dave@localhost ~]$ ls -ld /home
>drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 4 19:45 /home
>[dave@localhost ~]$ ls -ld /home/dave
>drwx------ 63 dave dave 4096 Oct 13 23:55 /home/dave
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Think this is the problem, apache (if you have a look at the httpd.conf
file you will notice "User apache Group apache" somewhere) needs to
access that directory.
If you just give the x - execution permission to "others" for your
home/dave directory it should work.
Cheers
>[dave@localhost ~]$ ls -ld /home/dave/web
>drwxrwxrwx 3 dave dave 4096 Oct 11 06:20 /home/dave/web
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>>does user apache have ability to descend? _rwxr_xr_x
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>If I read the above results correctly, /home/dave/web/ should be open to
>anyone. So shouldn't apache also be able to read it?
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>>2 - selinux ?
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>I seem to remember that for some setting ages ago, I had selinux
>disabled. But how can I be sure?
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>>ps - changing permissions of a link is pointless, the permissions are
>>derived for the original file
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>Okay. Thank you for that tip.
>
>Dave
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