[Trac] Installation/Configuration problem Fedora Core 3 / Trac 8.1

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Hi,


> I'm sorry to have to bother this list like this, but I can't seem to
> find a solution to my problem thanks for any and all help.  I'm
> running on Fedora Core 3 with Trac 8.1.  First off, here's the error
> messages, and then I have included (to the best of my ability/memory)
> the steps I took to install/configure trac.  I can include any files
> (httpd.conf, etc) if it will help.   Thanks!
> 
> 
> When I goto the site http://machineipaddress/cgi-bin/trac.cgi I get a
> 500 Internal server error.  When I view the log
> in /var/log/httpd/error_log I see the following:
> 
> [Wed Mar 23 18:31:23 2005] [error] [client 10.0.0.107] (13)Permission
> denied: exec of '/usr/share/trac/cgi-bin/trac.cgi' failed
> [Wed Mar 23 18:31:23 2005] [error] [client 10.0.0.107] Premature end
> of script headers: trac.cgi

I'm going to guess you're running with SELinux enabled.  The short fix
would be to disable it completely, or disable it for the web server
only.  The longer fix would be to meddle with the security context
of /usr/share/trac.

There's a HOWTO explaining apache and SELinux issues on
www.fedora.redhat.com

Thomas