[Mailman-Users] problems with gid when installing

[Peter Coolen]

> 
> You don't put '$prefix' literally. $ prefix stands for the 
> path you provided to configure with the --prefix= option 
> (default /usr/local/mailman).
> 
> What is in your Apache configuration now?

Some apache config lines for mailman

    Alias /pipermail/ "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public/"

 <Directory "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public/">
        Options Indexes FollowSymlinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"

    ScriptAlias /mailman/ "usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/"    

    <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
        AllowOverride None
        Options None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

<Directory "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/">
        Options Indexes FollowSymlinks MultiViews ExecCGI
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>


> 
> What is in Apache's error_log associated with the 404?
> 

[Sun Jan 21 17:24:24 2007] [error] [client 192.168.0.18] script not found or
unable to stat: usr/local/mailman/create
[Sun Jan 21 17:24:37 2007] [error] [client 192.168.0.34] script not found or
unable to stat: usr/local/mailman/

> What does 'ls -l /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin' show?
> 
admin at localhost:/var/log/apache$ ls -l /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/
total 220
-rwxr-sr-x    1 root     mailman     17476 Jan 20 16:19 admin*
-rwxr-sr-x    1 root     mailman     17484 Jan 20 16:19 admindb*
-rwxr-sr-x    1 root     mailman     17484 Jan 20 16:19 confirm*
-rwxr-sr-x    1 root     mailman     17484 Jan 20 16:19 create*
-rwxr-sr-x    1 root     mailman     17484 Jan 20 16:19 edithtml*
-rwxr-sr-x    1 root     mailman     17484 Jan 20 16:19 listinfo*
-rwxr-sr-x    1 root     mailman     17484 Jan 20 16:19 options*
-rwxr-sr-x    1 root     mailman     17484 Jan 20 16:19 private*
-rwxr-sr-x    1 root     mailman     17484 Jan 20 16:19 rmlist*
-rwxr-sr-x    1 root     mailman     17484 Jan 20 16:19 roster*
-rwxr-sr-x    1 root     mailman     17484 Jan 20 16:19 subscribe*

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