On Feb 1, 2008 4:28 PM, Daniel B. Thurman <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It seems that I am having a bit of a problem with SElinux, > Apache, and Subversion in the way that I have my subversion > respository located not in the "recommended" place. > > Instead of putting the repository in the recommended place: > /var/www/svn for example, docs says you can put the repository > elsewhere by adding SVNParentPath=/my/place/svn entry into the > /etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf file, but SELinux does not > like it. I did changed the svn repository directory/files with > context httpd_sys_context_t and with ownership of apache.apache. > I also created a link such as /var/www/svn -> /my/svn setting > SVNParentPath=/var/www/svn - it does not work as well. > > I have tested to see if SELinux is blocking access by setting > setenforce 0, then opened up the firefox browser, entered > my user name and password and it worked, but setting setenforce 1 > back, breaks it again. > > Does anyone know how to do it - beside recommending that I > place the svn repository directly into /var/www/svn? > > Thanks- > Dan Just to be brief a bit. I have two machines with SELinux and Subversion. One at /var/ww/svn and one at /srv/svn. Both work just fine. Looking at the AVCs, seems like the files are improperly labeled. Take a look and Daniel Walsh's most recent replies to see how to fix this. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
