systemctl failed start Writefreely Instance (permission denied)

[DocWho22]

Describe the bug

As I ran systemctl status writefreely, I got this:

[root@instance-20220429-1753 writefreely]# systemctl status writefreely
● writefreely.service - WriteFreely Instance
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/writefreely.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2022-05-05 08:16:52 CST; 3s ago
  Process: 59535 ExecStart=/var/www/changedtomydomain/writefreely/writefreely (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
 Main PID: 59535 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)

May 05 08:16:51 instance-20220429-1753 systemd[1]: writefreely.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=203/EXEC
May 05 08:16:51 instance-20220429-1753 systemd[1]: writefreely.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
May 05 08:16:52 instance-20220429-1753 systemd[1]: writefreely.service: Service RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart.
May 05 08:16:52 instance-20220429-1753 systemd[1]: writefreely.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
May 05 08:16:52 instance-20220429-1753 systemd[1]: Stopped WriteFreely Instance.
May 05 08:16:52 instance-20220429-1753 systemd[1]: writefreely.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
May 05 08:16:52 instance-20220429-1753 systemd[1]: writefreely.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
May 05 08:16:52 instance-20220429-1753 systemd[1]: Failed to start WriteFreely Instance.

But when I ran /var/www/changedtomydomain/writefreely/writefreely, the website worked!

SO in the end I used tmux to run writefreely.

Steps to reproduce (if necessary)

My service file:

[root@instance-20220429-1753 writefreely]# cat /etc/systemd/system/writefreely.service
[Unit]
Description=WriteFreely Instance
After=syslog.target network.target mysql.service

[Service]
Type=simple
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
WorkingDirectory=/var/www/changedtomydomain/writefreely
ExecStart=/var/www/changedtomydomain/writefreely/writefreely
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

I also tried chmod -x /var/www/changedtomydomain/writefreely/writefreely, but it didn't make any difference.

Expected behavior

What should've happened?

Application configuration

• Single mode or Multi-user mode? Multi-user
• Database? mysql
• Open registration? yes
• Federation enabled? yes

Version or last commit:
latest version v0.13.1

My System

Oracle RHEL 8 aarch64

[thebaer]

Can you share the application logs from journalctl? That will probably indicate what's going wrong when you try to start it up.

[DocWho22]

Thanks for reply. Very sorry that I stopped writefreely because I found it did not fit me. So I could not give the logs from journalctl.

I guess it may because SELINUX. I run systemctl with root. But I created a user writefreely and download writefreely with it. So it has this problem.

Thanks for your reply! Have a nice day and stay healthy.

Best regards.