Apache Userdir with SELinux on Fedora 31/30, CentOS/RHEL 8.0/7.7 - Comment Page: 1
This is quick guide howto enable Apache userdirs with SELinux on Fedora 31/30/29/28, CentOS 8.0/7.7/6.10 and Red Hat (RHEL) 8.0/7.7/6.10. This guide assumes that you have Apache (httpd) server installed on your system. This guide uses separeted userdir.conf without touching httpd.conf so later default httpd.conf can be overrided or whole configuration moved simply. This guide uses user called testuser and should be replaced by real user name(s).
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Enable Apache Userdirs
1. Change root user
su -
## OR ##
sudo -i
2. Create /etc/httpd/conf.d/userdir.conf file
Open file, with our favorite editor, like:
nano -w...
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Works! Nice :)
I found out that if I set UseCanonicalName On in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf – apache is changing localhost in the browser to the ServerName specified in httpd.conf and the pages in ~/public_html are not loading at all. So I set UseCanonicalName Off again :)
Best,
Jozsef
Or else,
It could be fixed in /etc/hosts by adding:
127.0.0.1 nameOFtheSERVER
:)
Best,
Jozsef
I follow your step html is working but php just show me blank screen.
Is there any light on how and why?
Best!
Fhon
Hi Fhon,
Is your PHP working on any other dir?
Is it working example on /var/www/html dir?
Hi JR,
Php is working on /var/www/html
but not /home/user/public_html
When try to access test.php file it just show download the file.
Run test.html work show the page without problem.
Best!
Fhon
Hi again Fhon,
A few additional questions.
What operating system (and version) are you using?
Did you execute following command?
Post following commands output:
Hello,
I have the same problem as Fhon
and here is my output for those commands:
userdir.conf didn’t exists because I enable the mod directly from httpd.conf, and here is the configuration for userdir:
and here is output from ls command:
Is there something wrong with my configuration?
Hi Adods,
Is PHP working normally on /var/www/html directory?
Is HTML files working normally from user directory?
Could you post your full httpd.conf file and full path of your Apache userdir what you are using?
sed ‘/^ *#/d;s/#.*//’ /etc/httpd/conf.d/{php,userdir}.conf
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so
LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5-zts.so
AddHandler php5-script .php
AddType text/html .php
DirectoryIndex index.php
UserDir enabled
UserDir public_html
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Allow from all
Order deny,allow
ls -laZ ~/public_html/
drwxr-xr-x. brad brad unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 .
drwx--x--x. brad brad unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0 ..
-rw-rw-r--. brad brad unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 index.html
-rw-rw-r--. brad brad unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 index.html~
-rw-rw-r--. brad brad unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 test.php
drwxrwxr-x. brad brad unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 thwart
Hi BT,
Thanks, do you have some problem with it?
was having issues, got it resolved. Not exactly sure how I fixed it, but its working now :) Thanks guys!
Excellent! :)
Great Tutorials, thanks you.
On Fedora 14 I had to :
setsebool -P httpd_read_user_content 1
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Hi JR,
I’m running Fedora 14
I followed this tutorial to first install mysql, and then to install Apache (httpd) with php, the PHP test page creation succeed but not the last test remote connection.
And also while enabling Apache Userdir i couldn’t succeed and got this error in the browser: “Not Found
The requested URL /~testuser/ was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.17 (Fedora) Server at localhost Port 80”
Please help i’m a new user.
Thanks!
Hi Doufanat,
What problems you have with remote connections? Do you opened iptables firewall port? Or are you behind some other firewall?
Do you actually have testuser with home dir on your Linux? Could you check your apache error_logs and post last errors here when you try to access testuser dir?
Hi,
I have some access problem
[[email protected] Xia]# chown testuser:testuser /home/testuser/public_html
chown: invalid user: `testuser:testuser’
[[email protected] Xia]# chmod 755 /home/tesuser/public_html
chmod: cannot access `/home/tesuser/public_html’: No such file or directory
[[email protected] Xia]#
Need help please
Hi,
So it looks like, that you don’t have testuser. I used this testuser just an example here…so if your username is example doufanat then you should use doufanat instead of testuser.
Hi JR
Thanks a lot, I’ve finished enabling Apache userdirs and it succeed, but the problem with the test remote connection till remain.
How to check my Apache error_logs? how to check either the port is open or not.
Best
Hi Doufanat,
Actually you don’t need Apache error_logs anymore if yoy get userdirs working… :)
First check, you could run following command:
Then next thing is ensure that you have own and public ip address?
Hi JR
This is result of iptables -L
[[email protected] Xia]# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all — anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
ACCEPT icmp — anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT all — anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT tcp — anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:ssh
ACCEPT tcp — anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:http
REJECT all — anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
REJECT all — anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
[[email protected] Xia]#
Do I need
You iptables rules looks good, but then next thing is have public ip, if you want open your server to whole world or lan ip, if you want open your server locally?
FYI, in my case, I had to modify the UserDir settings I found in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. Following your instructions and creating a userdir.conf file was overriden by the defaults in httpd.conf.
Thank you for your tutorial, I couldn’ find much out explaining how to do this. Right now I am having this problem after running the command
setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs true
I get
“-bash: setsebool: command not found”
I am running Centos 6.0, what could be causing the issue?
Thanks
Hi Nicholas,
Could you post output of following commands:
CentOS 6.0 should not be a problem…
I keep getting a 403 Forbidden saying I don’t have permission to access this…can you help me?
Hi Alice,
What system you are running?
Could you post output of following commands:
Hi, followed your instructions, but when I go to localhost/~testuser (or in my case localhost/~elijah) I just get a not found page:
Not Found
The requested URL /~elijah was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.22 (Fedora) Server at localhost Port 80
I have the same problem as you. Everything else has worked fine so far. PHP and Apache itself seem fine. I can access the php test page from other computers on my local network but when I go to localhost/~testuser (localhost/~rick) I get the same thing.
Not really sure where to start looking to fix this.
I got no errors on anything in the setup process.
Well I seem to have found my problem.
Double check to make sure your settings in the userdir section of your httpd.conf file are correct.
Great guides by the way. Very clear and easy to follow.