[Mailman-Users] Permissions issue w/ Apache

[Dragon]

Bill Honneus (honneus) wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just completed the mailman setup instructions and was able to create a
>mail list with the command line option and receive an email
>notification.  However, the Apache web browsing part doesn't seem to
>work as I get a permissions error page when I attempt to browse to
>"http://<my-mailman-IP-addr>/mailman/create.  I have my httpd.conf set
>up to point the alias to the mailman script folder as such:
>
>ScritpAlias    /mailman/    "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/"
>
>The permissions on each script are shown below:
>
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 21127 Apr 29 17:43 admin
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 21159 Apr 29 17:43 admindb
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 21159 Apr 29 17:43 confirm
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 21159 Apr 29 17:43 create
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 21159 Apr 29 17:43 edithtml
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 21159 Apr 29 17:43 listinfo
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 21159 Apr 29 17:43 options
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 21159 Apr 29 17:43 private
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 21159 Apr 29 17:43 rmlist
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 21159 Apr 29 17:43 roster
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 21159 Apr 29 17:43 subscribe
>
>Can somebody please recommend the next step(s) to troubleshoot this
>issue?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
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It is quite possible your system is running SElinux.

See:

http://www.revsys.com/writings/quicktips/turn-off-selinux.html

If it is running, turn it off as described on that page and try again.

If that works, you will have to decide if you want to just keep it 
off or go to the trouble of configuring SElinux.

Dragon

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