Aye should have mentioned I've tried the solution that is given in the SEL popup, but doesn't help. I'll try to change the permissions as in your suggestion when I have access to the computer again.
I've tried both Drupal and Joomla and each has it's merits - to each their own =) 2013/9/13 Roger <are...@bigpond.com> > > I'm trying to set up Joomla on my laptop to play around with a site I'm > planning. However SELinux seems to block write access for the installation > routine to the direcotry /var/www/html and none of the solutions I've found > by googling to allow SELinux httpd write access seems to work (installation > hangs immediately). setenforce 0 deosn't have any effect either as far as I > can tell, as I still can't install Joomla. Anyone successfully installed > Joomla 3 on Fedora 19 please can tell how I should proceed? > I used Drupal for years for building sites and testing before moving to > Rails, and to a tee, all the problems on localhost are permissions and > ownership based. SEL will complain and give you the correction it requires > to fix the SEL problem. > > It may be that /var/www/html has root ownership and closed permissions. > On my local machine I have to chmod 776 the /var/www/html folder then > check the permissions so that chown is, for instance, apache:my_user in > /html folder, for ubuntu it's /var/www/www-data that needs the permissions > and ownership changed. > do the install then check. > > I have not found Joomla suitable, It's easy to use but very limited, my > 0.2c worth. > Roger > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.**org/mailman/listinfo/users<https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users> > Fedora Code of Conduct: > http://fedoraproject.org/code-**of-conduct<http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct> > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/**Mailing_list_guidelines<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines> > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- Regards, Martin S
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