Httpd : Enable public_html In User Home Directory with SELinux

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1. First of all, enable mod_userdir module in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

IfModule mod_userdir.c>
    #
    # UserDir is disabled by default since it can confirm the presence
    # of a username on the system (depending on home directory
    # permissions).
    #
    # UserDir enabled
 
    #
    # To enable requests to /~user/ to serve the user's public_html
    # directory, remove the "UserDir disabled" line above, and uncomment
    # the following line instead:
    #
    UserDir public_html
 
</IfModule>

2. Now we create public_html under user home directory.

mkdir ~user1/public_html

3. To make it work with SELinux, we need to change SELinux context of the public_html.

chcon --reference /var/www/html ~user1/public_html

4. Also change the permission of the public_html from 700 to 711.

chmod 711 ~user1/public_html

5. Enable SElinux boolean for httpd_enable_homedirs

sesetbool -P httpd_enable_homedirs 1

6. * Enable SElinux module mypol.pp

 
semodule -i mypol.pp 

7. * Enable SELinux boolean for httpd_read_user_content

setsebool -P httpd_read_user_content 1

8. Restart httpd.  

9. Done! 

* is optional