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Fedora 20 systemctl nginx permission denied

I've installed fedora 20 in VMware Workstation on Windows 7. Everything goes okay until I install nginx via yum install nginx. After editing nginx.conf (only changed location / root)

    location / {
        root   /mnt/hgfs/www;
        index  index.html index.htm;
    }

I try to start nginx via systemctl start nginx. Nginx is active but can't access to root folder. Log says 13: Permission denied. I'm sure nginx has the permission to access the folder.

At first, I thought it might because of HGFS. I changed root to /usr/share/nginx/html, than problem solved. But I won't use this folder as my root.

So I mount a new disk via mount /dev/sdb1 /www (formatted as ext4), set 777 and change nginx.conf. Then the problem shows again.

The reason why I specify systemctl is that I try to run nginx just by sudo nginx. Anything goes perfect and no error shows up.

Does systemctl have issues with a different filesystem? But sdb1 is the same format as origin filesystem.

What can I do to resolve this?

Solution

  • This is because of SELinux, which uses a different way to manage privileges.