I am trying to start the httpd service on RHEL 7.
When I run systemctl start httpd, it fails.
Here is the output of journalctl -xe. There are no apparent error message for httpd, Would the errors for polkitd be affecting apache? How would I resolve these?
Jun 10 10:59:50 localhost.localdomain polkitd[850]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:4462:116143 (system bus name :1.57 [/usr/bin/pkttyagent --notify-fd 5 --fallback], object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) Jun 10 10:59:50 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server... -- Subject: Unit httpd.service has begun start-up -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: -- -- Unit httpd.service has begun starting up. Jun 10 10:59:50 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: httpd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Jun 10 10:59:50 localhost.localdomain kill[4468]: kill: cannot find process "" Jun 10 10:59:50 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: httpd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Jun 10 10:59:50 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start The Apache HTTP Server. -- Subject: Unit httpd.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: -- -- Unit httpd.service has failed. -- -- The result is failed. Jun 10 10:59:50 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit httpd.service entered failed state. Jun 10 10:59:50 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: httpd.service failed. Jun 10 10:59:50 localhost.localdomain polkitd[850]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:4462:116143 (system bus name :1.57, object path /org/freedesktop/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8) (disconnected from bus) EDIT: log output and additional info
Here is the output of tail -f 10 /var/log/httpd/error_log. The log files are stored on an NFS mounted directory (hosted remotely). I can edit the files from the machine running apache, but apache itself doesn't seem to be able to write to them.
==> /var/log/httpd/error_log <== (13)Permission denied: AH00091: httpd: could not open error log file /data/web/logs/new-error.log. AH00015: Unable to open logs (13)Permission denied: AH00091: httpd: could not open error log file /data/web/logs/new-error.log. AH00015: Unable to open logs (13)Permission denied: AH00091: httpd: could not open error log file /data/web/logs/new-error.log. AH00015: Unable to open logs (13)Permission denied: AH00091: httpd: could not open error log file /data/web/logs/new-error.log. AH00015: Unable to open logs (13)Permission denied: AH00091: httpd: could not open error log file /data/web/logs/io-new-error.log. AH00015: Unable to open logs EDIT 2: Additional logs
[root@localhost web]# sealert -a /var/log/audit/audit.log 78% donetype=AVC msg=audit(1465576122.933:606): avc: denied { write } for pid=4384 comm="httpd" name="logs" dev="0:38" ino=1060076 scontext=system_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:nfs_t:s0 tclass=dir **** Invalid AVC allowed in current policy *** type=AVC msg=audit(1465576695.541:615): avc: denied { read } for pid=4489 comm="httpd" name="sims" dev="0:38" ino=1060159 scontext=system_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:nfs_t:s0 tclass=lnk_file **** Invalid AVC allowed in current policy *** 78% donetype=AVC msg=audit(1465576695.580:616): avc: denied { read } for pid=4489 comm="httpd" name="sims" dev="0:38" ino=1060159 scontext=system_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:nfs_t:s0 tclass=lnk_file **** Invalid AVC allowed in current policy *** type=AVC msg=audit(1465576695.581:617): avc: denied { write } for pid=4489 comm="httpd" name="logs" dev="0:38" ino=1060076 scontext=system_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:nfs_t:s0 tclass=dir **** Invalid AVC allowed in current policy *** 100% done found 0 alerts in /var/log/audit/audit.log 2 Answers
If your RHEL 7 system has SELinux enforcing, you need to enable the SELinux boolean values to get NFS working. To check if your system is utilizing SELinux:
# getenforce If the above returns enforcing, please continue:
# getsebool -a | grep httpd_use_nfs If the above returns httpd_use_nfs --> off, run the following command to permanently allow Apache to use NFS.
# setsebool -P httpd_use_nfs on Apache should be allowed to write to those error log files now.
9Try apachectl configtest and you will see the error
