[Mailman-Users] Forbidden Mailman Archive

[Kevin Nowaczyk]

This seems to be a somewhat common problem, so I've looked at the archives at all the suggestions, tried everything that is recent and nothing has worked. It looks like no archives are actually being created, despite the "yes" option being selected in the list configuration.

Thanks for any help.
Kevin Nowaczyk

I'm running mailman 2.1.18 on debian 8.2 (Jessie)

mm_cfg.py has the line
DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/'
 and no value for PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL. 
messing with these setting seemed to be a 10 year old issue, so I didn't play around with this for fear of breaking something else

My apache config:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName lists.example.com
DocumentRoot /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/lists-error.log
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/lists-access.log combined

Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
<Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public>
    Options +FollowSymLinks
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
Alias /images/mailman/ /usr/share/images/mailman/
ScriptAlias /admin /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/admin
ScriptAlias /admindb /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/admindb
ScriptAlias /confirm /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/confirm
ScriptAlias /create /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/create
ScriptAlias /edithtml /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/edithtml
ScriptAlias /listinfo /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo
ScriptAlias /options /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/options
ScriptAlias /private /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/private
ScriptAlias /rmlist /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/rmlist
ScriptAlias /roster /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/roster
ScriptAlias /subscribe /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/subscribe
ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/
</VirtualHost>

Directory Listing:

.:
total 16
drwxrwsr-x 4 root     list 4096 Sep  9 20:35 .
drwxrwsr-x 8 root     list 4096 Jul  6 11:55 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     list    0 Sep  9 20:35 list
drwxrws--- 8 www-data list 4096 Feb 24  2015 private
drwxrwsr-x 2 root     list 4096 Sep  9 20:04 public

./private:
total 32
drwxrws--- 8 www-data list 4096 Feb 24  2015 .
drwxrwsr-x 4 root     list 4096 Sep  9 20:35 ..
drwxrwsr-x 2 root     list 4096 Sep  9 19:40 LISTNAME
drwxrwsr-x 2 root     list 4096 Feb 14  2014 LISTNAME.mbox
drwxrwsr-x 2 root     list 4096 Feb 13  2014 mailman
drwxrwsr-x 2 root     list 4096 Feb 13  2014 mailman.mbox

./private/LISTNAME:
total 12
drwxrwsr-x 2 root     list 4096 Sep  9 19:40 .
drwxrws--- 8 www-data list 4096 Feb 24  2015 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root     list  493 Feb 14  2014 index.html

./private/LISTNAME.mbox:
total 8
drwxrwsr-x 2 root     list 4096 Feb 14  2014 .
drwxrws--- 8 www-data list 4096 Feb 24  2015 ..

./private/mailman:
total 12
drwxrwsr-x 2 root     list 4096 Feb 13  2014 .
drwxrws--- 8 www-data list 4096 Feb 24  2015 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root     list  506 Feb 13  2014 index.html

./private/mailman.mbox:
total 8
drwxrwsr-x 2 root     list 4096 Feb 13  2014 .
drwxrws--- 8 www-data list 4096 Feb 24  2015 ..

./public:
total 8
drwxrwsr-x 2 root     list 4096 Sep  9 20:04 .
drwxrwsr-x 4 root     list 4096 Sep  9 20:35 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root     list   42 Feb 14  2014 LISTNAME -> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/LISTNAME
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root     list   41 Feb 13  2014 mailman -> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mailman