DocumentRoot not valid if in /home and 3 levels deep

very strange and specific problem, no clues yet.

[marshallbrunson]

Hi everybody.

What we have is an RPM installation of apache 2.0.52 running on Fedora Core 3. The httpd service starts fine UNLESS we have DocumentRoot specified as a directory that is in the /home file system AND is more than 2 subdirectories deep. take the following:

/home
works fine as a DocumentRoot

/home/httpd
works fine

/home/httpd/anythingelse
this will cause the httpd service to fail on startup, and report 'syntax error on line xyz: DocumentRoot must be a directory'

interestingly, I can specify a 10-level deep DocumentRoot if I don't put it in /home (I tried /etc/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/0 as a test and it worked).

Any idea why I can't use a 3-level deep directory in the under /home?

all file systems are on the local disk.

-marshall

[distinctimaging]

I had a similar problem and tracked it down to the new SELinux security model. The following URL helped
[tech-uno.com...]
I believe it's possible to not completely disable SELinux, but I didn't have time to learn how yet.

I hope that helps.