[Mailman-Users] RH 7.2 RPM Install Question on RH. - Access Forbiden to Web Page

[Mike Gifford]

Hello Christopher,

Thanks for the quick reply.

On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 17:07, Christopher Mende wrote:
> What you need to do is modify your apache httpd.conf file to create a 
> script alias for mailman, like such:
> ScriptAlias /mailman/ /var/mailman/cgi-bin/

I've added this:
#Added by Mike for mailman
ScriptAlias /mailman/ /var/mailman/cgi-bin/
Alias /pipermail/ /var/mailman/archives/public/
<Directory /var/mailman/archives>
Options +FollowSymlinks
</Directory>

It didn't say where to add it, I added it somewhere round the middle.. 
Outside of an if statement (I believe)..  I'll try to move this and see
if that works...

Nope..  Moved it right above the Virtual <VirtualHost MyIP>

Restarted the server (again) and still got the same error

> I believe there's a file called README.linux or redhat to that effect. 

I was able to find this..  
	/usr/share/doc/mailman-2.0.8/INSTALL

> You  should also be able to find the info on the web. 

I could find some for installing mailman from a tarball, but not as an
rpm.

> There are other entries 
> you'll have to add for additional web functionality as well (ie: 
> pipermail). My installation is running RH7.2 as well.

Is there an rpm for pipermail?  I couldn't find it, but hadn't noticed
the Alias int he http.conf fragment above.

However, mailman must be working as otherwise I'd get a 404 error rather
than a 403 error..

Mike

> On 14 Jan 2002, Mike Gifford wrote:
> 
> |Hello,
> |
> |I'm trying to set up mailman on a RH system, but get the following error
> |403:
> |
> |Forbidden
> |You don't have permission to access /mailman/ on this server.
> |
> |Apache/1.3.22 Server at my.server.org Port 80
> |
> |I assume that this is because the permissions aren't set as readable by
> |the web, however I can't find where to change the permissions.  I have a
> |/home/mailman/ directory with appropriate permissions, but don't think
> |this is it.
> |
> |I'm using mailman-2.0.8
> |
> |I've followed README.REDHAT, and didn't get any errors on the install
> |process.
> |
> |Please don't tell me to use the tarball.  It isn't an option for the
> |destination server.
> |
> |This is the relevant part of my permissions:
> |[root at learningpartnership mailman]# cat /etc/passwd
> |<SNIP>
> |mailman:x:1048:1048:Mailman Mailinglist:/var/www:/bin/false
> |
> |[root at learningpartnership mailman]# cat /etc/group
> |<SNIP>
> |www:*:502:mailman,mike
> |
> |(are the numbers way wrong?)
> |
> |# ls /var/mailman/ -la
> |total 64
> |drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root         4096 Jan 14 15:43 .
> |drwxr-xr-x   22 root     root         4096 Jan 14 15:43 ..
> |drwxrwsr-x    8 root     root         4096 Jan 14 16:02 Mailman
> |drwxrwsr-x    4 root     mailman      4096 Jan 14 15:43 archives
> |drwxrwsr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan 14 15:57 bin
> |drwxrwsr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan 14 15:43 cgi-bin
> |drwxr-sr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan 14 15:43 cron
> |drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan 14 15:59 data
> |drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan 14 15:43 filters
> |drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Dec 11 15:54 lists
> |drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan 14 16:47 locks
> |drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan 14 15:44 logs
> |drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan 14 15:43 mail
> |drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Dec 11 15:54 qfiles
> |drwxrwsr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan 14 15:43 scripts
> |drwxrwsr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan 14 15:43 templates
> |
> |[root at learningpartnership mailman]# ls /home/mailman/ -la
> |total 8
> |drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan 14 16:39 .
> |drwxr-xr-x   11 root     root         4096 Jan 14 16:39 ..
> |
> |Any suggestions would be appreciated..
> |
> |Mike
> |
> |ps.  I do love the digest function, but if you reply to this please cc
> |me.
> |
> 
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