note 103119 deleted from json.installation by danbrown

Note Submitter: Zeathe ---- A note for those who are actually using SELinux.... Per dmitryzayats: |Installation steps on CentOs 5.3 include | |# yum install php-devel |# yum install php-pear |# yum install gcc |# pear install pecl/json | |# cd /etc/php.d |# echo "extension=json.so" > json.ini |# service httpd restart | |After that phpinfo() would output | |json support enabled |json version 1.2.1 This is not quite correct on SELinux enabled. You must change the context of the json.so module for SELinux as it adopts the tmp_t context and user-space User.... fix this simply by executing: # chcon -u system_u -t textrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/php/modules/json.so Otherwise...SELinux audit log will show something like: type=AVC msg=audit(1301186547.574:24405): avc: denied { read } for pid=26998 comm="httpd" name="json.so" dev=dm-0 ino=28639463 scontext=user_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:object_r:tmp_t:s0 tclass=file ...and you will see json.ini being parsed and still not see the JSON info section in phpinfo() output as PHP is being denied access to the module by SELinux.