[Mailman-Users] Converting Existing Private Archive to Public Archive

[Todd]

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Bill Selmeier wrote:
> I have private archives going back years that are viewable as
> private archives.  When I change to public they dissappear from the web
> access and any attempt to get to the archives results in
>
> The requested URL /mailman/archives/listname/ was not found on this
> server.

Is there anything in your apache error logs?  Perhaps you don't have the
FollowSymlinks option set?  Do you have other lists with public archives
that work correctly?

> Change back to private and they are there again.  I checked and it appears
> the correct symlinks are being created.  I've changed their ownership to
> list since that was the owner in the Private directory where they worked.

You might want to run check_perms to make sure the permissions are right.
You shouldn't have to mess with the symlinks that mailman creates to the
private directory where the archives are actually stored.

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