Allowing apache (httpd) to run from home directory in Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora

Q: I have installed apache and chose to put my document root into a home directory.  I could not get apache to start and after much research I found it was SELINUX stopping it from starting.  I was told not to disable SELINUX and to configure it to work with the new directory.  Do you have any idea how I can accomplish this?
A: Set the httpd_enable_homedirs boolean in SELINUX to allow such access.
So the first thing I would do is use the sealert command to pull the relevant information from the audit log. Read More