On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/02/2010 10:13 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Robert Moskowitz<rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> >>> I have a very simple setup. This is to create a simple repo. >>> >>> In /var/..../repo/html there are three files: >>> >>> # ls -ls >>> total 8 >>> 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 60 2010-11-02 13:42 Centos-5.5 -> >>> /media/d4ae05a3-c60f-489d-8159-e16c9a271f0b/repos/centos/5.5 >>> 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2010-11-02 11:05 FC12 -> >>> /var/hda/files/repo/fedora/FC12 >>> 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 99 2010-11-02 13:43 index.html >>> >>> index.html has in it: >>> >>> <html> >>> <UL> >>> <LI><A HREF="FC12">Fedora 12</A> >>> <LI><A HREF="Centos-5.5">Centos 5.5</A> >>> </UL> >>> </html> >>> >>> The link to FC12 works. The link ot Centos-5.5 gets a 403 failure: >>> >>> You don't have permission to access /Centos-5.5 on this server. >>> >>> The permissions look the same, so why the failure? And looking into >>> these two symlinks: >>> >>> # ls -ls FC12/ >>> total 8 >>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-11-21 19:35 os >>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-11-22 21:25 updates >>> >>> # ls -ls Centos-5.5/ >>> total 4 >>> 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-11-02 14:04 os >>> >>> So what is wrong with the Centos-5.5 symlink? >> >> And "ls -lsd ..." for the two directories above? > > # ls -ls > total 8 > 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 60 2010-11-02 13:42 Centos-5.5 -> > /media/d4ae05a3-c60f-489d-8159-e16c9a271f0b/repos/centos/5.5 > 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2010-11-02 11:05 FC12 -> > /var/hda/files/repo/fedora/FC12 > 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 99 2010-11-02 13:43 index.html > > # ls -lsd > 4 drwxrwxr-x 2 apache users 4096 2010-11-02 13:43 . > > # ls -lsd FC12/ > 4 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2010-11-02 11:04 FC12/ > > # ls -lsd Centos-5.5/ > 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-11-02 14:04 Centos-5.5/ I was hoping that it'd be a simple permissions problem but, as someone else has pointed out, it must be an selinux issue. You're going to have to compare the selinux contexts with the "-Z" ls option and then apply the correct context (most probably with "--type=httpd_sys_content_t") on the CentOS repository. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines