I got the solution finally.

I found a good tutorial and tested it. Now I'm happy. Hope it's also secure enough.

Hopefully somone else can benefit from this.

I asume you installed this first:

dnf install httpd mariadb mariadb-server php php-cli php-php-gettext php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mysqlnd php-pear php-curl php-gd php-xml php-bcmath php-zip phpmyadmin

After installing httpd mariadb php and phpmyadmin. Do the following

Allow virtual machines that use fusefs to install properly with SELinux (Don't know if this is really necessary? Can someone clarify?)

sudo setsebool -P virt_use_fusefs 1

Increasing the amount of inotify watchersREAD MORE: https://github.com/guard/listen/wiki/...

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p

Create folder where we will store and run our development sites

mkdir ~/Sites

Creating symbolic link from the Apache web directory to your sites folder

sudo ln -s ~/Sites /var/www/html

Tell SELinux that these files/directories are allowed to be modified by Apache

sudo chcon -R unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_sys_rw_content_t:s0 ~/Sites

Change the "User apache" string in the config file to "User (the username of the current user)". For a development machine, it's more convenient to run Apache as the current user to simplify permissions problems

sudo sed -i "s/User apache/User $USERNAME/g" /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Edit config file www.conf. Seems important to get everything working right.

• change user to current user: user =$USERNAME (was apache) add current user to listen.acl_users:

• listen.acl_users = apache,nginx,$USERNAME

  sudo nano /etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf
  

Configure mariadb

sudo systemctl start mariadb.service
sudo mysql_secure_installation

#

NOW EVERYTHING MUST BE WORKING

#

Add your virtualhostfiles and make the necessary changes to your /etc/hosts file. Enjoy!

If you need connection for your CMS f.e. than allow apache/httpd to connect:

Allow Apache/httpd to connect

sudo setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1

Thanks to the only (good) tutorial I found!

I thought there would be more expertice here to help.

Anyway I think I got it covered except for the selinux issues. Please advice if I'm on the right track (LAMP for local development websites, so sites are not accesable from outside):

install Apache, mariadb, php and phpmyadmin

dnf install httpd mariadb mariadb-server php php-cli php-php-gettext php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mysqlnd php-pear php-curl php-gd php-xml php-bcmath php-zip phpmyadmin

start apache & dbase

systemctl start httpd.service systemctl start mariadb.service

Setup database access

mysql_secure_installation

add user to group Apache

usermod -a -G apache $USERNAME

make apache owner and set write access

sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/www

sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www

Make future folders/files the right permissions and make them owned by Apache

sudo chgrp -R apache /var/www

sudo chmod -R g+s /var/www

in httpd.conf change:

Relax access to content within /var/www.

ALLOWOVERRIDE ALL instead of AllowOverride none

<directory "="" var="" www"=""> AllowOverride All <<< -- Change this line # Allow open access: Require all granted </directory>

So everything works now but I still have writing issues. If I do:

sudo setenforce 0

Everything works fine. I can work on files with visual studio code, and I can install extensions within CMS and change config files

HELP:

What should I do with Selinux? I'm working on this for 2 days now, tested in VM's and real PC's but I can't get the right answer. Seems I can't find anything correct about it. The right answer would be highly appreciated.

I searched more and more and got some progress. Would love to hear if this is the best solution (at least it works):

 sudo chown apache:apache -R /var/www
# cd to /var/www !!!
sudo find . -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;
sudo find . -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \;
sudo chcon -t httpd_sys_content_t /var/www -R

#Make future folders/files the right permissions and make them owned by Apache
sudo chgrp apache /var/www
sudo chmod g+s /var/www