On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 5:14 AM Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2023-04-23 at 14:56 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> > On 4/23/23 14:50, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > I had a look at /var/log/httpd/error_log and found this:
> > >
> > > httpd: could not open error log file
> > > /var/www/bree.org.uk/error.log
> > >
> > > I rechecked and that file definitely exists and is writable by root
> > > (which httpd runs as). However a suspicion arose and I decided to
> > > turn
> > > off SElinux and reload.
> >
> > As someone else mentioned, why are you writing logs to the web server
> > data directory? There's a directory (/var/log/httpd) that's already
> > intended for that. The file context is most likely going to be
> > wrong,
> > which is why selinux is (rightly) blocking it.
>
> Why? Because being unfamiliar with Apache (and Certbot) I was foolishly
> following an online step-by-step guide:
>
> https://www.linuxshelltips.com/install-apache-fedora-linux/
>
> I've since seen the error of my ways and it seems to be working now.
Yeah, first try Fedora docs at docs.fedoraproject.org. They are
updated regularly. If you have a problem, then ask about it.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/getting-started-with-apache-http-server/
Avoid off-site answers. Oftentimes it's just dev2dev answers, with
some dev posting what worked for him when following someone else's
article.
Jeff
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