[Mailman-Users] 403 Forbidden error accessing public archives

[Richard Barrett]

At 11:09 12/06/2003, Ronald van Engelen wrote:
>Thanks Richard for your useful info. I still however have the same
>problem. See details below for the modifications I've tried.

Ronald

One thing I should have said is that after changing hosts and such you may 
want to run the $prefix/bin/withlist script fix_url.py to update the 
web_page_url attribute of existing lists.

That said, I do not think that is the cause of this problem.

Have you checked your web server access and error logs to see if they give 
any clues?

Richard

>Regards,
>Ronald
>
>Op do 12-06-2003, om 11:43 schreef Richard Barrett:
> > At 01:19 12/06/2003, Ronald van Engelen wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I'm getting the infamous 403 Access Forbidden error trying to access my
> > >public archives.
> > >
> > >I've read the faq and the README files but can't find my error. I'm
> > >using  mailman 2.1.2-1 from Debian unstable with apache 1.3.27.0-1.
> > >
> > >In mm_cfg.py I have:
> > >
> > >PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL = '/mailman/private'
> > >PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = '/pipermail'
> >
> > There were some changes in the URL handling between MM 2.0.x and 2.1.x
> >
> > It looks as though you are using the old style which may be causing you
> > problems.
> >
> > In MM 2.1.2 PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL is a full URL pattern. Installing from
> > source Defaults.py has the following definitions:
> >
> > PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = 'http://%(hostname)s/pipermail/%(listname)s'
>
>I replaced my orginal PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL with the one above in mm_cfg.py
>
> >
> > MM 2.1.2's Defaults.py no longer defines PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL but is does
> > say the following:
> >
> > <quote>
> > DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'mailman.xxx.co.uk'
> > DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'mailman.xxx.co.uk'
> > DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mailman/'
> >
> > # DEFAULT_HOST_NAME has been replaced with DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST, however some
> > # sites may have the former in their mm_cfg.py files.  If so, we'll believe
> > # that, otherwise we'll believe DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST.  Same for DEFAULT_URL.
> > DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = None
> > DEFAULT_URL = None
> > </quote>
>
>I replaced my orginal lines with the ones above (commenting out
>DEFAULT_URL) and filling my sites parameters.
>
> >
> > Probably worth taking a closer look at Defaults.py and then updating your
> > mm_cfg.py to take account of changes between MM 2.0.x and MM 2.1.x
> >
> > Then repost if you still have a problem.
>
>After making the changes above and restarting the apache and mailman
>daemons, I still have the same problem.
>
> > >My relevant section in http.conf reads:
> > >
> > >Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
> > ><Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public>
> > >   Options FollowSymLinks
> > >   Order allow,deny
> > >   Allow from all
> > ></Directory>
> > >
> > >The directories in /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/ are default
> > >symlinks to /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/
> > >
> > >The permissions on the archive-directories in the latter are:
> > >drwxrwsr-x    5 www-data list
> > >
> > >On the index.html file:
> > >-rw-rw-rw-    1 www-data list
> > >
> > >I hope anybody can help.
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Ronald
> > >
> > >
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