How to Disable SELinux?

There are 2 ways to disable SELinux: temporary and permanent. First of all, to find out the current SELinux status on your server, use the following command:

sestatus

If the status is still enabled, then we will immediately disable it first.

If you want to disable SELinux temporarily then use the following command on your SSH terminal:

setenforce 0

Then if you want to disable SELinux permanently, then use the following command:

Edit file /etc/sysconfig/selinux

Then make sure the set SELINUX=disabled

# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
# enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.
# permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
# disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded.
SELINUX=disabled
# SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these two values:
# targeted - Targeted processes are protected,
# mls - Multi Level Security protection.
SELINUXTYPE=targeted

Then save.

For these changes to take effect, you must first reboot the server.

reboot

Then your SELinux status is permanently disabled.