Installing WordPress with SELinux issue

REPLACED WITH: https://github.com/edwardsmarkf/selinux-wordpress

## 2023-02-28
## apparently when SELinux was introduced, it caused serious WP installation issues. these steps get around that without
## resorting to setting /etc/selinux/config “SELINUX=permissive”

## written from: https://www.tecmint.com/install-wordpress-rhel-apache/

dnf —assumeyes update ;

dnf —assumeyes install wget unzip ;

dnf —assumeyes install mariadb-server ;
dnf —assumeyes install httpd ;

## php 7.4 installation

dnf —assumeyes install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-8.rpm ;
dnf —assumeyes module reset php ;
dnf —assumeyes module enable php:remi-7.4 ;

dnf —assumeyes install php-fpm php-cli php-common php-zip php-gd php-mcrypt php-mbstring php-curl php-xml php-pear php-bcmath php-json php-pdo php-mysql ;

systemctl enable —now mariadb.service ; ## —now is a new feature that MIGHT not work!
systemctl start mariadb.service ;

systemctl enable —now httpd.service ;
systemctl start httpd.service ;

systemctl enable —now php-fpm.service ;
systemctl start php-fpm.service ;

mysql —verbose <<END ; CREATE DATABASE `wpDb`; GRANT ALL ON `wpDb`.* TO ‘wpUser’@‘localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘wpPassword’; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
END

1. to test:
   mysql —user=wpUser —password=wpPassword wpDb < SHOW databases;
   SELECT VERSION;
   exit
   END

cd /var/www/html ;

firewall-cmd —zone=public —permanent —add-service=http ; firewall-cmd —reload ;

echo ‘‘ > phpinfo.php ; ## visit http://IP#/phpinfo.php to test

wget https://wordpress.org/latest.zip ;
unzip /var/www/html/latest.zip ;

mv —verbose ./wordpress/* /var/www/html/ ;
rmdir —verbose ./wordpress ;

/usr/bin/chown —recursive —verbose apache:apache /var/www/html/ ; ## omitted wordpress
/usr/bin/chcon —recursive —verbose —type=httpd_sys_rw_content_t /var/www/html/ ;

find /var/www/html -type d -exec chmod —verbose 755 {} ; ; find /var/www/html -type f -exec chmod —verbose 644 {} ; ;

/usr/sbin/semanage fcontext —add —type httpd_sys_rw_content_t “/var/www/html(/.*)?” ;
/usr/sbin/restorecon -R -v /var/www/html/ ;

echo “rebooting – be sure to go to http:/###.###.###.###/ and install wordpress!” ; /usr/sbin/shutdown —reboot now ;