[scassidy@jacensolo ~]$ /usr/sbin/sestatus | grep SELinux
SELinux status:                 enabled
SELinuxfs mount:                /selinux

I have yet to find what to do to enable webserver connections.

Susan


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Adrian Klaver <adrian.kla...@gmail.com>wrote:

> On 01/24/2014 09:35 AM, Susan Cassidy wrote:
>
>> I've already checked that.  It is enabled.  I am running Scientific Linux.
>>
>
> SELinux is enabled?
> The database connection value is enabled to allow or disallow webserver
> connections?
>
>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us
>> <mailto:t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>> wrote:
>>
>>     Susan Cassidy <susan.cass...@decisionsciencescorp.com
>>     <mailto:susan.cass...@decisionsciencescorp.com>> writes:
>>      > $dbh =
>>     DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=$dbname;host=${dbserver};port=$dbport;",
>>      > $dbuser, $dbpasswd) or
>>      >  errexit( "Unable to connect to dbname $dbname, err:
>> $DBI::errstr");
>>
>>      > The exact same connection string works fine in a standalone perl
>>     program.
>>
>>     Given the permissions errors you mentioned upthread, I'm wondering
>>     whether
>>     you're running on Red Hat/CentOS, and if so whether SELinux is
>>     preventing
>>     apache from connecting to unexpected port numbers.  I seem to recall
>>     that there's a SELinux boolean specifically intended to allow or
>>     disallow
>>     database connections from webservers, but I couldn't tell you the name
>>     offhand.
>>
>>                              regards, tom lane
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Adrian Klaver
> adrian.kla...@gmail.com
>

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