Tom Lane wrote:
Joel Alpers <j...@jkalpers.com> writes:
New system:  Fedora 11, PostgreSQL 8.4

Fedora 11 enables selinux by default ...

*** Error - Can't connect to database "photodb" - could not connect to server: 
Permission denied
        Is the server running on host "192.168.111.7" and accepting
        TCP/IP connections on port 5432?

Almost certainly, this represents selinux thinking that apache shouldn't
be making connections to random ports, and denying the socket open long
before it ever has a chance to get to postgres.

If you poke around in the selinux configuration options you can probably
find a switch that opens this up, but I don't know offhand what it is.

Or you could disable selinux, but if you're running a publicly visible
webserver I'd strongly recommend against that.  selinux will save your
bacon someday, but not if it's turned off.

                        regards, tom lane

Tom:

Thanks for the quick reply - looks like you were spot on with your analysis.

I temporarily set selinix to "permissive" and the web page works as it should.

Now the trick will be to find a way to make them play well together -- I'll
check the postgres site where they have discussions archived...

Thanks again!!!

Joel.

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