Setting up mod_selinux
In the next set of recipes, we use an Apache module called mod_selinux to make Apache SELinux-aware and to support configurable transitions. In other words, the context in which Apache is running is no longer a statically defined context, but can be changed according to the administrators' needs.
In this recipe, we will install mod_selinux from its source as many Linux distributions do not offer it by default, even though it is a very powerful addition to the web server (which is also why support for mod_selinux is often called Apache/SELinux Plus).
How to do it…
You can set up mod_selinux through the following steps:
- Download the sources from https://github.com/kaigai/mod_selinux.
- Make sure that the Apache development headers ...
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