Plesk hosted website or its newly uploaded images are not shown: 403 forbidden error

Symptoms

• An entire website does not work or images for newly uploaded posts could not be displayed:

  403 Forbidden

• SELinux policy is in enforcing state:

  # getenforce
  Enforcing

• psa-selinux package may be absent. The command below returns nothing:

  # rpm -qa | grep psa-selinux

Cause

Invalid SELinux security context. For example, SELinux security contexts for the uploaded images can show:

# ls -Z /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/image.jpg
system_u:object_r:initrc_tmp_t:s0 /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/image.jpg

Resolution

1. Connect to the server through SSH;

2. Install psa-selinux package if it is missing:

   # yum install psa-selinux

3. Restore broken SELinux security contexts for the affected website files:

   # restorecon -R /var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs/