[Mailman-Users] Help, please.

[Phil Barnett]

I've spent about 15 hours in the last two days trying to wind my 
way through the maze I'm dealing with.

First, I have a Redhat 6.2 server running Plesk Server 
Administrator. Plesk creates a fairly secure environment, including 
using suexec for cgi-bin security.

This is giving me fits, since it means I have to give special 
ownership and specific rights to the /home/mailman/cgi-bin 
directory. This means that once I get this directory set so that the 
cgi-bin files will execute that bin/check_perms returns a bunch of 
errors, ie: it thinks that most of it should be owned by mailman 
instead of the suexec group id.

Also, bin/check_perms suggests that the cgi-bin directory should 
be chmod 02775, but suexec insists on 02755. Also, I had to 
chown a lot of files in the /home/mailman directory to the suexec 
id, ie: chown -R fiberhos.pleskcli instead of mailman.mailman.

I'm wondering at this point if I can even get it to work at all...

Am I beating a dead horse?

What do I have so far? If I log into the server at: 
https://www.fiberhosting.com/mailman/admin, I get the admin 
page, but if I try to open 
https://www.fiberhosting.com/mailman/admin/test, it just locks up 
and waits several minutes until it times out. There is nothing written 
to the logs/error file or any other file in the logs directory. the 
suexec log shows that a cgi script ran without problems. There is 
nothing in the apache logs. After it timed out, the python process 
stopped. (ps aux)

I'd really appreciate any help I can get from any of you. Thanks...

Here is some information on the server (from an error I corrected 
during my getting permissions set)

Redhat 6.2

Mailman version 2.0beta5

Python information:

sys.version 1.5.2 (#1, Feb 1 2000, 16:32:16) [GCC egcs-2.91.66 
19990314/Linux (egcs-  
sys.executable /usr/bin/python  
sys.prefix /usr  
sys.exec_prefix /usr  
sys.path /usr  
sys.platform linux-i386  

Environment variables:

SSL_SERVER_I_DN  
/C=RU/O=BSG/CN=als.nsk.bsgdesign.com/CN=localhost  
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING  gzip, deflate  
SSL_SERVER_CN  localhost  
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE  en-us  
SSL_SERVER_C  RU  
GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1  
SSL_SERVER_O  BSG  
HTTP_ACCEPT  */*  
REQUEST_URI  /mailman/admin/test  
SSL_SERVER_I_C  RU  
SSL_SSLEAY_VERSION  OpenSSL 0.9.4 09 Aug 1999  
HTTPS  on  
HTTP_HOST  www.fiberhosting.com  
SSL_SERVER_I_O  BSG  
SERVER_ADMIN  admin at fiberhosting.com  
SCRIPT_FILENAME  /home/mailman/cgi-bin/admin  
HTTPS_SECRETKEYSIZE  128  
PYTHONPATH  /home/mailman  
SSL_PROTOCOL_VERSION  SSLv3  
HTTP_USER_AGENT  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; 
Windows NT)  
DOCUMENT_ROOT  
/usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/fiberhosting.com/httpsdocs  
SERVER_ADDR  206.132.232.94  
SSL_SERVER_I_CN  localhost  
SERVER_PORT  443  
HTTPS_KEYSIZE  128  
CHARSET_HTTP_METHOD  https://  
UNIQUE_ID  OaXq286E6F4AAFS-DgE  
REMOTE_ADDR  207.30.74.40  
SERVER_NAME  www.fiberhosting.com  
HTTP_CONNECTION  Keep-Alive  
CHARSET_SERVER_NAME  www.fiberhosting.com:443  
SSL_SERVER_DN  
/C=RU/O=BSG/CN=als.nsk.bsgdesign.com/CN=localhost  
CHARSET_SERVER_PORT  443  
SSL_CIPHER  RC4-MD5  
PATH  /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin  
QUERY_STRING   
SERVER_PROTOCOL  HTTP/1.1  
PATH_INFO  /test  
REMOTE_PORT  2754  
REQUEST_METHOD  GET  
PATH_TRANSLATED  
/usr/local/plesk/apache/vhosts/fiberhosting.com/httpsdocs/test  
SCRIPT_NAME  /mailman/admin  
SERVER_SOFTWARE  Apache/1.3.12 Ben-SSL/1.38 (Unix) 
PHP/3.0.15 FrontPage/4.0.4.3 rus/PL29.4  
HTTPS_CIPHER  RC4-MD5  



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