On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 01:38:35PM -0500, Avinash Sridhar wrote: > hi, > I insatlled httpd using yum earlier this month and went about the > process of setting up a web server on my local machine. All went > well,except that I wanted to change the DocumentRoot directory to an > external usb drive. After googling a lot i found out that it was a bug > issue with selinux having a policy for httpd, so the bug fix was given > as > > chcon -R system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t /my/new/docroot > or > setsebool -P httpd_disable_trans=1 Which did you do? > I did this and it worked like a charm and I had no problems what so > ever. Now however I had to repartition my external disk but the data > on it was all backup and i restored the drive as usual.Around the same > time I had kept my fedora up to date using up2date. Now however when i > follow all the same procedures before I am not able to set up my > site..the error in the error_log file in /etc/httpd/error_log says > "[Tue Mar 22 13:11:24 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Symbolic link > not allowed: /var/www" > > my /var/www is a symbolic link to the external path. I have > FollowSymLinks in the Options for both Directories "/ and > /var/www/html" This could be a permissions issue: is the symlink readable by the Apache user? If you are still running with the httpd transition enabled, do you get any new avc failures in /var/log/messages? joe