[support] immediate installation errors

[blake hall]

It is possible to disable SELinux during the CentOS install though  
(which is what I always do since it seems to be more trouble for us  
than it's worth).  I would bet that that's the problem. (Another  
reason I'm liking Ubuntu server better lately).


blake hall

On May 31, 2007, at 4:02 PM, Larry Garfield wrote:

>
> On Thu, 31 May 2007 09:26:05 -0400, Tim McGeary <tmm8 at Lehigh.EDU>  
> wrote:
>> Earnie Boyd wrote:
>>> Quoting Tim McGeary <tmm8 at Lehigh.EDU>:
>>>
>>>> Quoting Jason Flatt <drupal at oadaeh.net>:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday 30 May 2007 20:45:30 Tim McGeary wrote:
>>>>>> Currently the directory permissions are 755 and the ownership is
>>>>>> apache.apache.  I've also tried 777.  No luck either way.  The  
>>>>>> entire
>>>>>> drupal directory tree that is extracted from the tar file is  
>>>>>> owned by
>>>>>> apache.apache and is 755 permissions.
>>>>>>
>>>>> This may be a silly question, but what owner and group is the web
>> server
>>>>> running as? Are you sure it's apache. and/or .apache?
>>>> The web server is definitely running as apache, owner and group,  
>>>> and
>>>> is defined the same way in httpd.conf.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is it a SELinux system?  Google for ``selinux site:drupal.org''.
>>> You'll find this http://drupal.org/node/50280 and others.
>>
>> No, it is CentOS Linux.  I didn't find anything useful in googling  
>> like
>> you wrote except replaced selinux with centos.
>
> Ah, there's your problem then. :-)  SELinux is "Security Enhanced"  
> Linux, a kernel module with user-space configuration.  It was  
> developed by Red Hat and the NSA, and is a more fine-grained and  
> tighter permission system than the default users/groups setup.   
> It's installed by default on Red Hat systems these days I believe,  
> as well as some Red Hat derivatives including, yes, CentOS.
>
> My company used to use CentOS on our servers, but dropped it a  
> while back specifically because its SELinux implementation was  
> broken and kept causing all sorts of trouble for apache.
>
> If you're having trouble with other PHP apps, too, then I would  
> definitely put the blame on SELinux/CentOS at this point.  SELinux  
> is hard to get right unless you really know what you're doing.   
> IME, CentOS does not. :-)
>
> --Larry Garfield
>
> -- 
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