[Mailman-Users] RH 7.2 RPM Install Question on RH. - Access Forbiden to Web Page

[Christopher Mende]

Mike,

What you need to do is modify your apache httpd.conf file to create a 
script alias for mailman, like such:

ScriptAlias /mailman/ /var/mailman/cgi-bin/

I believe there's a file called README.linux or redhat to that effect. You 
should also be able to find the info on the web. There are other entries 
you'll have to add for additional web functionality as well (ie: 
pipermail). My installation is running RH7.2 as well.

~C

On 14 Jan 2002, Mike Gifford wrote:

|Hello,
|
|I'm trying to set up mailman on a RH system, but get the following error
|403:
|
|Forbidden
|You don't have permission to access /mailman/ on this server.
|
|Apache/1.3.22 Server at my.server.org Port 80
|
|I assume that this is because the permissions aren't set as readable by
|the web, however I can't find where to change the permissions.  I have a
|/home/mailman/ directory with appropriate permissions, but don't think
|this is it.
|
|I'm using mailman-2.0.8
|
|I've followed README.REDHAT, and didn't get any errors on the install
|process.
|
|Please don't tell me to use the tarball.  It isn't an option for the
|destination server.
|
|This is the relevant part of my permissions:
|[root at learningpartnership mailman]# cat /etc/passwd
|<SNIP>
|mailman:x:1048:1048:Mailman Mailinglist:/var/www:/bin/false
|
|[root at learningpartnership mailman]# cat /etc/group
|<SNIP>
|www:*:502:mailman,mike
|
|(are the numbers way wrong?)
|
|# ls /var/mailman/ -la
|total 64
|drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root         4096 Jan 14 15:43 .
|drwxr-xr-x   22 root     root         4096 Jan 14 15:43 ..
|drwxrwsr-x    8 root     root         4096 Jan 14 16:02 Mailman
|drwxrwsr-x    4 root     mailman      4096 Jan 14 15:43 archives
|drwxrwsr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan 14 15:57 bin
|drwxrwsr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan 14 15:43 cgi-bin
|drwxr-sr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan 14 15:43 cron
|drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan 14 15:59 data
|drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan 14 15:43 filters
|drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Dec 11 15:54 lists
|drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan 14 16:47 locks
|drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan 14 15:44 logs
|drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan 14 15:43 mail
|drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Dec 11 15:54 qfiles
|drwxrwsr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan 14 15:43 scripts
|drwxrwsr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan 14 15:43 templates
|
|[root at learningpartnership mailman]# ls /home/mailman/ -la
|total 8
|drwxrwsr-x    2 root     mailman      4096 Jan 14 16:39 .
|drwxr-xr-x   11 root     root         4096 Jan 14 16:39 ..
|
|Any suggestions would be appreciated..
|
|Mike
|
|ps.  I do love the digest function, but if you reply to this please cc
|me.
|

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