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ajayram_arya
I asked the administrator to open ports for 8080 which I am using a non root user port . So is that still a problem on SELinux
Things which don't require explicit permission in ordinary Linux,
do in SElinux -- that is the entire point of having it. SElinux is "security-enhanced Linux". It adds many extra layers of checks and controls. Often we get people coming here having problems with ordinary programs in SElinux, the solution of which is to enable certain special SElinux options, permissions, or bug their administrator to do so. It's a completely different kettle of fish.
So it's entirely possible that you're not getting the access you need just because SElinux isn't configured to allow full access to rogue daemons which someone just happened to upload without Administrator oversight or approval.
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Only problem when having root user to install webserver is everytime you want to update httpd.conf you need root user to update . Which is not feasible . So its always good to compile your own source code and edit the configuration as possible.
Most distributions of apache organize it into sub-files, so you don't need to edit httpd.conf at all. File access permissions or a line in sudoers or whatever could easily be set up so you could edit any of those files yourself anyway.
