[Mailman-Users] Archive access Forbidden

David Southwell david at vizion2000.net
Tue Dec 29 16:03:46 CET 2009


Thank you in advance for replies. The list is now working fine however access 
to the archive is blocked
:
From:
http://www.vizion2000.net/mailman/listinfo/bps_comps_print_announce

On line:
To see collection of prior postings to the list, visit the
clicking link for>   bps_comps_print_announce Archives

goes to:
http://www.vizion2000.net/pipermail/bps_comps_print_announce/

with result:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access/pipermail/bps_comps_print_announce/ on 
this server

Attempt to view archives from Topic Section of the mailing list administration 
page using link for> Go to list archives
also fails

Extract from httpd-error.log
[Tue Dec 29 12:50:12 2009] [error] [client 62.49.197.51] attempt to invoke 
directory as script: /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/
[Tue Dec 29 12:50:47 2009] [error] [client 62.49.197.51] Symbolic link not 
allowed or link target not accessible: 
/usr/local/mailman/archives/public/bps_comps_print_announce, referer: 
http://www.vizion2000.net/mailman/listinfo/bps_comps_print_announce

Extract from httpd.conf
ScriptAlias /mailman      "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin"
<Directory "/usr/local/mailman">
        Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
     </Directory>
ScriptAlias /pipermail "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public"
<Directory "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public">
 Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
       AllowOverride None
       Order allow,deny
          Allow from all
Options Indexes MultiViews
  AddDefaultCharset Off
    </Directory>

dns1# pwd                         
/usr/local/mailman                
dns1# ls -l                       
total 36                          
drwxrwsr-x  11 mailman  mailman  2048 Dec 29 09:03 Mailman
drwxrwsr-x   4 www      www       512 Dec 28 13:07 archives
drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman  1024 Dec 28 13:07 bin     
drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman   512 Dec 28 13:07 cgi-bin 
drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman   512 Dec 28 13:07 cron
drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman  mailman   512 Dec 28 15:54 data
drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman   512 Dec 28 13:07 icons
drwxrwsr-x   6 mailman  mailman   512 Dec 28 15:45 lists
drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman   512 Dec 29 14:00 locks
drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman  mailman   512 Dec 29 09:04 logs
drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman   512 Dec 28 13:07 mail
drwxrwsr-x  37 root     mailman   512 Dec 28 13:07 messages
drwxrwsr-x   5 root     mailman   512 Dec 28 13:07 pythonlib
drwxrwsr-x  11 mailman  mailman   512 Dec 28 15:54 qfiles
drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman   512 Dec 28 13:07 scripts
drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman   512 Dec 28 13:07 spam
drwxrwsr-x  38 root     mailman   512 Dec 28 13:07 templates
drwxrwsr-x   4 root     mailman   512 Dec 28 13:07 tests
dns1# cd archives
dns1# ls -l
total 4
drwxrws---  10 www  www  512 Dec 28 15:45 private
drwxrwsr-x   2 www  www  512 Dec 28 15:46 public
dns1# cd private
dns1# ls -l
total 16
drwxrwsr-x  2 www  www  512 Dec 19 17:58 bps_comp_print_chat
drwxrwsr-x  2 www  www  512 Dec 19 17:58 bps_comp_print_chat.mbox
drwxrwsr-x  2 www  www  512 Dec 19 17:57 bps_comp_print_reminders
drwxrwsr-x  2 www  www  512 Dec 19 17:57 bps_comp_print_reminders.mbox
drwxrwsr-x  4 www  www  512 Dec 29 03:27 bps_comps_print_announce
drwxrwsr-x  2 www  www  512 Dec 28 15:54 bps_comps_print_announce.mbox
drwxrwsr-x  2 www  www  512 Dec 28 15:45 mailman
drwxrwsr-x  2 www  www  512 Dec 28 15:45 mailman.mbox
dns1# cd ../public
dns1# ls -l
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x  1 www  www  55 Dec 19 17:58 bps_comp_print_chat -> 
/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/bps_comp_print_chat
lrwxr-xr-x  1 www  www  60 Dec 19 17:57 bps_comp_print_reminders -> 
/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/bps_comp_print_reminders
lrwxr-xr-x  1 www  www  60 Dec 19 17:56 bps_comps_print_announce -> 
/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/bps_comps_print_announce
dns1# cd /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/bps_comps_print_announce
dns1# ls -l
total 14
drwxrwsr-x  2 www  www   512 Dec 28 15:54 2009-December
-rw-rw-r--  1 www  www  2870 Dec 28 15:54 2009-December.txt
-rw-rw-r--  1 www  www  1356 Dec 29 03:27 2009-December.txt.gz
drwxrws---  2 www  www   512 Dec 28 15:54 database
-rw-rw-r--  1 www  www  1110 Dec 28 15:54 index.html
-rw-rw----  1 www  www   870 Dec 28 15:54 pipermail.pck
dns1#

Thanks in advance
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