Mailman error: Forbidden: You don't have permission to access /pipermail/grads/ on this server
I'm testing a new installation of postfix and mailman on a remote server (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 64-bit) with two active virtual hosts. Each host is accessed via a switch to https (TLS). I installed mailman (and postfix) via my package manager.
I've established four lists, two for each server, and I can send and receive mail successfully so far.
However, I, as a list user, cannot get access to the archives for a list. When I try to look at the archives through the link on the Welcome message I get the following:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /pipermail/grads/ on this server.
I tried changing the example line in the mailman.conf file from:
Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
to
ScriptAlias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
but that didn't change anything so I changed it back.
I have searched this list for "pipermail" but see no similar problem.
I'm sure I've missed a note somewhere but I'm not sure how to proceed. The mailman docs talk about permissions and the mailman user but Ubuntu installs all mailman files with root:list ownership which seems to work for all else. All the directories under /var/lib/mailman have these permissions:
drwxrwsr-x 4 root list
Thanks for your help.
Best regards,
-Tom
Thomas M. Browder, Jr. Niceville, Florida USA
Tom Browder wrote:
However, I, as a list user, cannot get access to the archives for a list. When I try to look at the archives through the link on the Welcome message I get the following:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /pipermail/grads/ on this server.
I tried changing the example line in the mailman.conf file from:
Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
to
ScriptAlias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
but that didn't change anything so I changed it back.
Good.
I have searched this list for "pipermail" but see no similar problem.
I'm sure I've missed a note somewhere but I'm not sure how to proceed. The mailman docs talk about permissions and the mailman user but Ubuntu installs all mailman files with root:list ownership which seems to work for all else. All the directories under /var/lib/mailman have these permissions:
drwxrwsr-x 4 root list
If that includes /var/lib/mailman/archives/private, then that's OK. Otherwise note that /var/lib/mailman/archives/private must be o+x or must have user:group xxx:list where xxx is the user that the web server uses to access files.
If this is not the problem, make sure the directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public has Options +FollowSymlinks in your web server config. I.e for Apache, put
<Directory "/var/lib/mailman/archives/public"> Options +FollowSymLinks Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory>
immediately after
Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
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