[Mailman-Users] Setting up mailman: Internal Server Error ?

[Philippe Rodriguez]

You can have a look to $prefix/logs/error ... maybe.


Phil.

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Remco Rijnders wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to get Mailman compiled and installed from source and
> experiencing some difficulties with it. I've created a testlist but
> when I try to access the given URL I receive an internal server error.
>
> According to the documentation this means that the GID or UID
> permissions are wrong. Nothing gets logged to the syslog though and in
> the httpd error log is the following:
>
> -----
> [Thu Mar 22 23:37:58 2001] [error] [client 213.84.15.171] Premature
> end of script headers: /home/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo
> -----
>
> What I fail to understand though is when I su to nobody (the ID the
> httpd processes run with) and then execute
>
> -----
> [nobody at spring mailman-2.0.3]$ /home/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo test
> -----
>
> that I get perfect HTML output as I would expect.
>
> Could it be that I have made a symlink from /home/starchat/www/mailman
> to /home/mailman/cgi-bin that is messing things up for me?
>
> When I copy the cgi-bin directory from the mailman home dir to under
> the starchat/www/cgi-bin directory I can access the page (though still
> with an error:  )
>
> -----
> Bug in Mailman version 2.0.3
>
> We're sorry, we hit a bug!
>
> Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of
> traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited,
> but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs.
> -----
>
> Can anyone let me know what I am doing wrong? I've run out of ideas
> myself.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Remco Rijnders
>
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