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abdogeo
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Permissions Problem

Post by abdogeo »

Hi All,

After an absence of about 2 years, I back to install phpMyFAQ on my server.
I did a completely fresh install of RHEL 4. I started HTTPD and MYSQLD.
I downloaded 1.6.9 and untared it into the HTML directory. Changed the owner and group to apache and tried to run install/installer.php from the browser, but I got the following error message:
You don't have permission to access /install/index.html on this server
I get the same error even when I access the index.html in the install directory.
After I got this error message, I did a chmod 777 for everything, and still got the same error message. This stumped me. I can access simple test.php files if i create one from scratch.

Not sure where to head off from here. Anyone got any suggestions?

Thanks
George
abdogeo
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Permissions Problem (Possible Solution)

Post by abdogeo »

I'm posting a reply to my original post.

The permissions problem seems to be an SELinux issue. When I disabled SELinux, it worked fine.
I've never used SELinux, so, not sure about settings changes. If anyone has any advice, please share them.
George
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