When attempting to serve content in a non-standard location with Apache it errors out with 'Permission Denied'

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Issue

  • When attempting to serve content in /home/<user>/apache/content with Apache it errors out with the following:
(13)Permission denied: httpd: could not open error log file /home/<user>/logs/error_log
Unable to open logs

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • 5.x
    • 6.x
  • SELinux enabled

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