[Mailman-Users] Odd CGI problem

[matt at giampapa.com]

Thanks Mark, unfortunately these changes still yield the same output. I
didn't put 2 and 2 together about it just displaying the file. At least
now I know apache isn't trying to execute it.

Anyone else have an idea?

Thanks,
Matt

> matt at giampapa.com wrote:
>>
>>I'm installing mailman on FreeBSD 6.0 from ports and using apache 2.0.55.
>>I have the following in the virtual host definition.
>>
>>    ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/"
>>    ScriptAlias /pipermail/ "/usr/local/mailmain/archives/public/"
>
> This should be
>
>     Alias /pipermail/ "/usr/local/mailmain/archives/public/"
>
> not ScriptAlias.
>
>
>>    <Directory "/www/lists/mailman">
>
>
> This should be
>
>     <Directory "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin">
>
>
>>        AllowOverride None
>>        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
>>        Order allow,deny
>>        Allow from all
>>    </Directory>
>>    <Directory "/www/lists/pipermail">
>
> This should be
>
>     <Directory "/usr/local/mailmain/archives/public">
>
>
>>        AllowOverride None
>>        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
>
> Should be
>
>         Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
>
>
>>        Order allow,deny
>>        Allow from all
>>    </Directory>
>>    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
>
>
> All this does is treat any files with .cgi extensions as cgi programs.
> This is not normally reqired for Mailman.
>
>
>>However, when I try to access /mailman/admin or /mailman/listinfo I get
>>alot of garbage... then this
>>
>>Mailman CGI error!!!
>>
>>--with-cgi-gidwebCGImail--with-mail-gid-S%sThe Mailman CGI wrapper
>>encountered a fatal error. This entry is being stored in your
>> syslog:Group
>>mismatch error. Mailman expected the %s wrapper script to be executed as
>>group "%s", but the system's %s server executed the %s script as group
>>"%s". Try tweaking the %s server to run the script as group "%s", or
>>re-run configure, providing the command line option `%s=%s'.Failure to
>>find group name %s. Try adding this group to your system, or re-run
>>configure, providing an existing group name with the command line option
>>%s.wwwlistinfodriverMailman cgi-wrapper (listinfo)$FreeBSD:
>>src/lib/csu/i386-elf/crtn.S,v 1.6 2005/05/19
>>
>>followed by more garbage.
>
>
> It looks like what you are getting is the result of Apache 'displaying'
> the contents of the wrapper instead of executing it.
>
> This may be the result of some of the above errors
>
>
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