[Mailman-Users] help, please: Apache cannot restart after installing mailman

[vjl at www.seweb.uci.edu]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Marcelo Assis wrote:

} [Tue Aug  6 12:40:47 2002] [notice] SIGHUP received.  Attempting to restart
} Syntax error on line 637 of /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf:
} Invalid command 'Exec', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not
} included in the server configuration

Remove the line in httpd.conf that says:

Exec          /mailman/*      $prefix/cgi-bin/*

You don't need that. You *do* need this line though:

ScriptAlias   /mailman/       $prefix/cgi-bin/

Replace $prefix with the location of your mailman home [usually
/home/mailman].

HTH,

/vjl/

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