SELinux will not disable on CentOS7

I want to permanently disable right now for the short term but nothing seems to work for me

Steps I have tried

[root@db1e secure]# setenforce 0
[root@db1e secure]# sestatus
SELinux status:                 enabled
SELinuxfs mount:                /sys/fs/selinux
SELinux root directory:         /etc/selinux
Loaded policy name:             targeted
Current mode:                   permissive
Mode from config file:          disabled
Policy MLS status:              enabled
Policy deny_unknown status:     allowed
Max kernel policy version:      28

changing value in /etc/selinux/config

# 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 three two values:
#     targeted - Targeted processes are protected,
#     minimum - Modification of targeted policy. Only selected processes are protected. 
#     mls - Multi Level Security protection.
SELINUXTYPE=targeted 

then restarting the httpd service

both still result in the same status of eabled instead of disabled which I would expect.. Any ideas?


After editing file /etc/sysconfig/selinux, for the changes to take effect, you need to reboot your system to get SELinux fully disabled. You can do setenforce 0 to get the system into "permissive" mode until a reboot occurs.

make sure you change SELinux=enforcing to SELinux=disabled