Boris Epstein wrote: > > I found an even simplier solution - disabled SELinux. I've got a > firewall and that is plenty. > Wow, not sure I'd place all my faith in a firewall. There is an SELinux tutorial on the Wiki that explicitly covers how to handle Apache serving content outside of DocumentRoot: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux Anyway, it's only one command to fix the issue - not exactly daunting.