[Mailman-Users] Permissions problems

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Wed Jan 29 22:30:47 CET 2003


  #
  #  httpd configuration settings for use with mailman.
  #

  ScriptAlias /mailman/ /var/mailman/cgi-bin/
  Alias /pipermail/ /var/mailman/archives/public/
  <Directory /var/mailman/archives>
        Options +FollowSymlinks
  </Directory>

  #
  # Uncomment, and replace www.example.com with your server's
  # name, to redirect queries to /mailman to the listinfo page 
  # RedirectMatch /mailman[/]*$ http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo


Also check the rights on your ~mailman/cgi-bin/.. directory and its
files, make sure that they are all set su-gid.

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On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 05:05, Adam wrote:
> I've installed mailman from source (took John's advice) with --configure --prefix=/var/lib/mailman --with-mail-gid=78 --with-cgi-gid=72 (which was obtained from grep apache /etc/groups. 
> 
> I've also run ./check_perms -f, which then showed no problems. 
> 
> Put in ScriptAlias 	/mailman/	/var/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ 
> in httpd.conf. 
> 
> However, when I go to the webserver and go to http://www.myhost.com/mailman/listinfo, 
> 
> I get: 
> Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access /mailman/listinfo on this server.
> 
> Is there anything else I need to check? 
> 
> thanks in advance? 
> adam
> 
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