Magento Installation permission issue

Question

I am using Fedora my Os System and was give permission 777 to /var/www/html.

I have try to install magento CE Version 1.9.0.1.But when i am trying to install magento from browser.it show permission issue

Path "/var/www/html/magento/app/etc" must be writable.
Path "/var/www/html/magento/media" must be writable.
Path "/var/www/html/magento/media/downloadable" must be writable.
Path "/var/www/html/magento/media/xmlconnect" must be writable.
Path "/var/www/html/magento/media/xmlconnect/system" must be writable.
Path "/var/www/html/magento/media/xmlconnect/system/ok.gif" must be writable.
Path "/var/www/html/magento/media/xmlconnect/custom" must be writable.
Path "/var/www/html/magento/media/xmlconnect/custom/ok.gif" must be writable.
Path "/var/www/html/magento/media/xmlconnect/original" must be writable.
Path "/var/www/html/magento/media/xmlconnect/original/ok.gif" must be writable.
Path "/var/www/html/magento/media/dhl" must be writable.
Path "/var/www/html/magento/media/dhl/logo.jpg" must be writable.
Path "/var/www/html/magento/media/customer" must be writable.

using chmod 777 -R /var/www/html and show same issue.I thought ,it can be user permission issue at /var/www/html/magento/ Can anyone help me ??

Answer 1

Probably you have a problem with SELinux permissions. You should try this:

chcon -R -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t /var/www/html/magento/
chmod -R a+w /var/www/html/magento/