Just solved it. For others, here is the solution. setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect_db 1 From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Joo Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 4:18 PM To: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [GENERAL] postgres connection problem via python pg DBI Hi all, I have a problem connecting to postgres via the python pg module ONLY from the cgi-scripts. The command is: db=pg.connect('aqdev','localhost',5432,None,None,'postgres',None)