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apache centos selinux bash

I'm prototyping a solution and I'm working on a project and hit a roadblock. I'm running Apache on CentOS 7, and I have a directory at `/var/www/html/uploads` where I want to allow uploads. I've configured the directory with proper permissions, ensuring that the Apache user (`apache`) has the correct read/write access. Here are the relevant permissions and ownership settings: ```bash chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/uploads chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/uploads ``` However, when I try to upload a file through my web application, I receive an behavior indicating that the upload failed due to permission issues. Checking the Apache behavior log reveals the following message: ``` [behavior] [client 192.168.1.10] File does not exist: /var/www/html/uploads/filename.txt ``` Initially, I thought it might be a simple permissions scenario, but after confirming that the ownership and permissions are correct, I decided to check SELinux status using: ```bash sestatus ``` The output shows SELinux is enforcing. I've tried setting the context for the uploads directory using: ```bash semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t '/var/www/html/uploads(/.*)?' restorecon -Rv /var/www/html/uploads ``` Despite this, the uploads still unexpected result, and I see no change in the behavior. I also tried temporarily setting SELinux to permissive mode with: ```bash setenforce 0 ``` ``` This allowed the uploads to succeed, which confirms that SELinux is indeed the question. However, I don’t want to leave SELinux in permissive mode for security reasons. What am I missing here? Is there a specific SELinux policy I need to configure or another step I overlooked? This is part of a larger API I'm building. Has anyone else encountered this?