Lab 7.2 - Virtual host

Elyas

When I execute the command

chcon -R --reference=$DOCUMENTROOT /ipvhost/ 

 then I get the error message

chcon: failed to get security context of ‘’: No such file or directory

Looks like SELinux to me. I checked the error log file and it says

[Wed Aug 09 07:59:36.145002 2017] [core:error] [pid 6343] (13)Permission denied: [client 192.168.153.55:60838] AH00035: access to /index.html denied (filesystem path '/ipvhost/index.html') because search permissions are missing on a component of the path

Not knowing SELinux very well I would like to understand what solution I could apply.

I would not want to disable SELinux. I would like to understand what permission can be added to the component of the path so that my browser displays the index file of the virtual host.

lee42x

In the "chcon -R --reference=$DOCUMENTROOT /ipvhost" command, we expected: 



chcon -R --reference=/var/www/html  /ipvhost  

The instructions in the chapter are supposed to clearly indicate that we need to subsitute our distro's location for the default apache document root into $DOCUMENTROOT.  Most of the current distro's are using "/var/www/html" as their default document root, but you may have to double check your primary apache config file to be sure. 

The commad itself copies the SELinux context from the "--reference" location and applies it the target "/ipvhost" location. You can use "ls -Z / " and "ls -Z /var/wwwhtml " to see the contexts. 

Thank you for bringing this to our attention, we will tidy up the instructions.