On Jul 11, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Shawn Heisey wrote:
> On 7/2/2012 2:33 AM, Nabeel Sulieman wrote:
>> Argh! (and hooray!)
>>
>> I started from scratch again, following the wiki instructions. I did only
>> one thing differently; put my data directory in /opt instead of /home/dev.
>> And now it works!
>>
>> I'm glad it's working now. I just wish I knew exactly what the difference
>> is. The directory in /opt has exactly the same permissions as the one in
>> /home/dev (chown -R tomcat solr).
>
> This could be selinux. I tend to disable it, as configuring it for proper
> operation with custom software can be tricky. If this is the problem, there
> will hopefully be a record of the denial in one of the files in /var/log.
> CentOS has selinux enabled by default.
>
> In case you don't know how to turn it off: in /etc/selinux/config, set
> SELINUX=disabled and reboot. There may be a way to disable it without
> rebooting, but I've found that to be the path of least resistance.
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn
>
You can temporarily disable selinux until the next reboot with this:
echo 0 > /selinux/enforce
Cheers
François
