[TriLUG] Re: fedora core 3 permishions

[Lance A. Brown]

Merle Watts wrote:
> im trying to set up an http server.
> 
> i have the server all set up and working the way it should, i can
> view my index.html
> 
> however, i had to manually set the permisions to the file. i had to
> change the group to apache and set read and execute privilages for
> that group on the file.
> 
> this will turn to a big problem when i place my 800 meg worth of
> pictures and files into this folder.
> 
> is there a way to set it so that every file in this folder, the
> var/www/html, is set to the appache group with read and execute
> turned on?
> 
> I did not have this problem when I was using mandrake.

Sounds like a problem with the default SELINUX settings.  FC3 ships with
SELINUX enabled.  To disable it, edit /etc/sysconfing/selinux and set
the SELINUX variable to disabled and reboot.  There are probably less
drastic mesasures you can take, but this is what I did.

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