[Mailman-Users] Permissions on public archives (apache 403)

[Michael Berkowski]

Hi Mark, 

Thanks for responding so quickly.


> >All access attempts return:
> >Forbidden
> >You don't have permission to access /pipermail/xxxxx on this server.
> >Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use
an
> >ErrorDocument to handle the request.
> >Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) Server xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Port 80
> 
> 
> What is in the Apache error_log relating to this?

Apache's error log shows this:
[root at othello httpd]# tail -n 4 error_log

[Fri May 26 10:30:33 2006] [error] [client 160.94.15.144] (13)Permission
denied: access to /pipermail/minitex-news denied
[Fri May 26 10:39:25 2006] [error] [client 160.94.15.144] (13)Permission
denied: access to /pipermail/minitex-news denied
[Fri May 26 10:44:05 2006] [error] [client 160.94.15.144] (13)Permission
denied: access to /pipermail/minitex-news denied
[Fri May 26 10:44:05 2006] [error] [client 160.94.15.144] (13)Permission
denied: access to /pipermail/minitex-news denied


> 
> >Apache reads mailman.conf on startup.  Would it make a difference if I
put
> >this information into httpd.conf instead?
> 
> 
> Probably not.
> 
> 
> ># mailman.conf #######################
> >ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/
> ><Directory /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/>
> >    AllowOverride None
> >    Options ExecCGI
> >    Order allow,deny
> >    Allow from all
> ></Directory>
> 
> 
> Presumably, the above is working, but it has no effect on public
> archive access.
> 
> 
> >Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
> ><Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public>
> >   Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
> >   # Options FollowSymlinks ExecCGI -Indexes -Includes
> >    AllowOverride None
> >    Order allow,deny
> >    Allow from all
> ></Directory>
> 
> 
> The above looks OK to me.
> 
> 
> >[root at othello mailman]# ls -l /var/lib/mailman
> >total 68
> >drwxrwsr-x   5 mailman mailman  4096 May 19 11:43 archives
> >drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman mailman 16384 May 26 09:45 data
> >drwxrwsr-x  72 mailman mailman  4096 May 22 16:03 lists
> >drwxrwsr-x   3 mailman mailman  4096 Apr 17 11:35 locks
> >drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman mailman  4096 Apr 17 11:15 logs
> >drwxrwsr-x  11 mailman mailman  4096 Apr 17 11:16 qfiles
> >drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman mailman  4096 Apr 17 11:14 spam
> >
> >[root at othello archives]# ls -l /var/lib/mailman/archives/
> >total 32
> >drwxrws--x  198 mailman mailman 12288 May 22 16:03 private
> >drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman mailman  4096 May 22 16:03 public
> 
> 
> Permissions look OK too.


Thanks,
-Michael