hi,

I've just installed Fedora3 with Apache Web server and I'm trying to install a PHP applciation which requires access write access to a directory in the web server directory as it installs through my browser. However I cannot give the browser permission to write to the directory.

In order to allow this, I have tried the following:
1. As root chmod the directory and all subdirectories to 777
2. As apache user chmod the directory and all subdirectories to 777
3. Chown the directories to apache user

I also ran a whoami.php script to try to find out which user the browser is, but the result was blank. It seems like the browser has no user. Can any one help?? I have tried this on two seperate machines with the same result.

Thanks
Steve

Remember that on FC3 Apache is restricted by SELinux as well as regular file permissions.

If you take a look the SELinux tab of Applications > System Settings > Security Level you will see the settings.

By default Apache is only allowed to access /var/www/ and subdirectories, but you can enable access to user's public html directories with the utility as well.

hi,

Yup. That was the problem. I disabled SE Linux and it worked.

Thanks
Steve