[Mailman-Users] Inaccessible public archives

[Mark Sapiro]

Bill Christensen wrote:

>At 6:59 PM -0700 7/4/08, Mark Sapiro wrote:
>>
>>What does Apache say when you try to access a public archive? What's in
>>Apache's error log?
>
>Symbolic link not allowed.


This says you need

Options +FollowSymLinks

in a

<Directory /usr/local/mailman/archives/public>

or superordinate block.


>>What are the ownership and permissions of
>>/usr/local/mailman/archives/private ?  In particular, is it either
>>owned by the apache user or o+x ?
>
>
>they were were
>
>drwxrws---	nobody	mailman	private
>drwxrwsr-x	billc	mailman	public
>
>I looked on the old hd and found them set as
>
>drwxrwx---	billc	mailman	private
>drwxrwxr-x	billc	mailman	public
>
>I tried a perms fix, but that didn't do the  trick.

Permissions and ownership should be as in the first set, assuming
Apache runs as user 'nobody'.


>
>So I tried changing them to that.  Bad idea, now I'm getting a "we've 
>hit a bug in mailman 2.1.9..." message when logging in to the web 
>interface.   I tried another perms fix, and the symptoms are 
>unchanged.
>
>Help, Mr Wizard!  I have no idea how to set an "rws" to get it back 
>to broken but generally functional.


chmod g+s will do it, but just to make sure everything is right, do it
this way:

chmod 2770 /usr/local/mailman/archives/private
chown nobody:mailman /usr/local/mailman/archives/private
chmod 2775 /usr/local/mailman/archives/public

Then put the Options +FollowSymLinks in an appropriate Directory block
in the Apache config.

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