Internal error permission problem when installing with SELinux enabled

[anonymous]

RHEL ES4 all packages installed via apt-get

Oops…

Trac detected an internal error:

[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/trac/tracwiki/VERSION' Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/core.py", line 531, in cgi_start

real_cgi_start()

File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/core.py", line 513, in real_cgi_start

env = open_environment()

File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/core.py", line 189, in open_environment

env = Environment.Environment(env_path)

File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/Environment.py", line 57, in init

self.verify()

File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/trac/Environment.py", line 70, in verify

fd = open(os.path.join(self.path, 'VERSION'), 'r')

IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/trac/tracwiki/VERSION'

[Christopher Lenz]

Well, you will need to give the web server user permissions to read and write to the Trac environment directory.

[anonymous]

Well,

I have this same problem but my webuser (apache) have RWX and the group have RWX permissions. on the folder and the DB. I am running Fedora Core 3 with Apache 2. I have chown apache:apache for the entire project folder also…

[parksnj@…]

I have the same question,

I am on fedora core 3 and I have also chown apache:apache and have even made the folder for the project /opt/tracsvn/db and the file inside chmod 777! I still get the apache user needs read write error. My apache user is 'apache' but httpd runs at root. However, I add root to the apache group. Of course that should not matter if a folder and file is chmod 777. Could this be susexec related issue?

[anonymous]

I had the same problem. In my case, the cause was SELinux(Security-Enhanced Linux). The following commands were executed although it was not so detailed about the SELinux.

% chcon -R system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_script_rw_t /var/trac

[anonymous]

I was getting the same error running Trac on RedHat Enterprise Linux 4. Apparently its the SELinux issue mentioned above. Running that chcon command on my trac_project_env dir finally got Trac running, but my the Timeline and Browse Source functionality was still broken. I got those fixed by running the same chcon command on my Subversion repository directories.

[sid]

Documentation pages now exist about both problems mentioned here. See TracWithSeLinux and ApacheSuexec