Apache UserDir gives cannot get docroot information

I followed the guide: https://www.tecmint.com/enable-apache-userdir-module-on-rhel-centos-fedora/ on how to enable user home dirs

When i browse: https://server.com/~myuser it works fine - but only for HTML files.

When I try to run a CGI file that is working fine when browsing https://server.com/file.cgi - it just doesn't work

I run the following:

$ journalctl -b | grep myuser

cannot get docroot information (/home/myuser)

Apache error.log doesn't say much:

End of script output before headers: file.cgi

My UserDir configuration is very basic, just like in the guide:

<IfModule mod_userdir.c>
       UserDir public_html
</IfModule>
<Directory "/home/*/public_html">
       Require method GET POST OPTIONS
       Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews -Indexes +ExecCGI
       AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .py .pcgi .pl

       AllowOverride All
       Require all granted
</Directory>

Any ideas how to solve it ?

EDIT

So something i didn't mentioned at first, is that my public_html directory was a sym-link. Just to make sure i'm not mixing issues - i copied the directory to remove the symlink.

from time to time though, i receive the following error as well:

SELinux is preventing suexec from execute access on the file file.cgi.

*****  Plugin catchall_boolean (89.3 confidence) suggests   ******************

If you want to allow httpd to unified
Then you must tell SELinux about this by enabling the 'httpd_unified' boolean.

Do
setsebool -P httpd_unified 1

*****  Plugin catchall (11.6 confidence) suggests   **************************

If you believe that suexec should be allowed execute access on the file.cgi file by default.
Then you should report this as a bug.
You can generate a local policy module to allow this access.
Do
allow this access for now by executing:
# ausearch -c 'suexec' --raw | audit2allow -M my-suexec
# semodule -X 300 -i my-suexec.pp

That SELinux thing is a real hazard ...

Solution 1

So not using a sym-link this one solved it:

setsebool -P httpd_unified 1

With using sym-link this one solved it:

semanage permissive -a httpd_suexec_t