Sometimes when I want to test something or write a prototype of some sort SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) kicks in and hinders me, given that it is enabled by default on OL 7 UEK 4. STOP! Before I let you continue to read take a mental note of my disclaimer: I am an advocate of having security turned on by default. It helps us provide better and obviously more secure systems which, in turn, helps the world save time and money. Security should never, ever be turned off for production systems!
With this being said, here are a couple of quick steps for how to get around it.

tl;dr

• setenforce 0
• vim /etc/sysconfig/selinux
• SELINUX=permissive

Here is also a short video on this topic:

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