I have manually compiled php-5.1.4 and tried to start httpd. I get the following error when I type service httpd configtest:

httpd: Syntax error on line 205 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/lib/httpd/modules/libphp5.so into server: /usr/lib/httpd/modules/libphp5.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied

I have looked around and noticed the following solution seems to have helped a lot of people:

1. If selinux enabled? type: setenforce 0
or try
2. set allow all permission chmod 777 libphp5.so
or
3. chcon libphp5.so -t shlib_t

of those 3 solutions, only #1 worked for me and I don't think that is the best solution. Can anyone explain to me why solution #3 would not work in my case? I'm using FC6, Apache 2.2.3, php 5.1.4

Thanks,
PlainD

On my system, the security context type of libphp5.so is textrel_shlib_t, so the correct command would have been "chcon libphp5.so -t textrel_shlib_t". You could have also tried using "restorecon -vv" which would restore the security context of the file according to the selinux-policy database and the "-vv" option will tell you what security context change was made to the file.

it was worth a shot but that didn't work for me. When i typed restorecon -vv libphp5.so I did not get any feedback as to the security context just another command line. Are there any other ways to tell the security context for a file?

Did you try "chcon -t textrel_shlib_t libphp5.so"?