[Mailman-Users] Permissions issue w/ Apache

[Mark Sapiro]

Bill Honneus wrote:
> 
>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?


What is the exact error in the apache error-log?

Just guessing, but I suspect you may not have allowed access to
/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/. You may need

<Directory "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/">
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

in your httpd.conf.

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