Nginx refuses to read new directory in /home

Question

I'm on CentOS6.6, installed "Akeneo" and all went well.

Installed into /home/pim so the actual location for nginx to use is the web directory where app.php is located.

Doing a namei on /home/pim/web/app.php shows:

f: /home/pim/web/app.php
dr-xr-xr-x root  root  /
drwxr-xr-x nginx nginx home
drwxrwxrwx nginx nginx pim
drwxr-xr-x nginx nginx web
-rwxrwxr-x nginx nginx app.php

Nginx is using:

user nginx nginx;
worker_processes  4;

And PHP-FPM is using:

listen.owner = nginx
listen.group = nginx
listen.mode = 0660

; Unix user/group of processes
user = nginx
group = nginx

Anyonan idea on why this isn't working? I've been playing for hours with the permissions now. Hope someone can point me in the right direction.

Answer 1

If SELinux is in Enforcing mode, it won't let you do that... Try changing this boolean to true:

setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs on

Please note, I don't recommend disabling SELinux!
There are many tools out there which can help you use SELinux to secure your system.

• Please see the CentOS documentation here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux

• Also, check out my favorite video on the topic: SELinux For Mere Mortals