[Discuss] apache problem

[jdm at moylan.us (dan moylan)]

derek martin writes:
> On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 05:01:37PM -0500, dan moylan wrote:
>> newly installed fc29 from scratch on my laptop -- apache
>> appears to be running ok.  chrome displays
>> localhost/welcome.htm just fine, but when i try
>> localhost/moylan/welcome.htm, where welcome.htm is in
>> /home/moylan/www, i get: "you don't have permission to
>> access localhost/moylan/welcome.htm on this server"

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> Another possibility is that you seem to have an SELinux ACL defined on
> the files (as indicated by the '.' character at the end of the
> permissions in the directory listing), and your SELinux policy is in
> some fashion forbidding access to the files by the web server.

well selinux was the issue.  i disabled it and the problem vanished.
perhaps that's not a good idea, but i've run without it for years.

thanks,
ole dan

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