Apache Permission Denied

On a newly installed Apache server, when I visit the website, I get permission denied error. On Apache error log (/var/log/httpd/error_log), i found

# tail -f /var/log/httpd/error_log
[Sat Mar 29 16:29:22 2014] [error] [client 59.98.136.37] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied
[Sat Mar 29 16:29:25 2014] [error] [client 59.98.136.37] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied
[Sat Mar 29 16:29:31 2014] [error] [client 59.98.136.37] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied
[Sat Mar 29 16:29:34 2014] [error] [client 59.98.136.37] (13)Permission denied: access to /index.html denied

I tried changing the folder permission to 755, but it did not fix it. The problem was caused by SELinux.

Solution

I disabled SELinux.

setenforce 0

To make it permanent, edit file /etc/selinux/config, set

SELINUX=disabled

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