[Mailman-Users] Cannot get GUI to work

[Jon Carnes]

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 15:53, William C. Mueller wrote:
> We are setting up Mailman 2.1.4 for testing and review
> on a Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3.0 system.
> 
> Mailman installed OK and
> usr/local/mailman/bin/check_perms produced no errors.
> 
> So unto Step 4. Final system set-up.
> However here is where we run into problems.
> 
> We are trying to interface Mailman with Apache but
> cannot get the Mailman GUI to run.
> 
> Per the instructions
> httpd.conf was edited to include:
> 
> ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/"
> 
> <Directory "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin">
>      AllowOverride None
>      Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
>      Order allow,deny
>      Allow from all
> </Directory>
> 
> The ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"
> and its Directory definition were commented out.
> 
> The web server was started with "apachectl start".
> Browsing into our machine we get only:
> Index of /
> with no files listed.
> 
> Also DocumentRoot and Directory were experimented with:
> 
>   DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
>   was changed to
>   DocumentRoot "/usr/local/mailman"
> 
>   and
> 
>   <Directory "/var/www/html">
>   was changed to
>   <Directory "/usr/local/mailman">
> 
> Making this change resulted in the browser to display
> all the files in /usr/local/mailman.
> 
> Clicking on the cgi-bin directory resulted in Forbidden
> Access.
> 
> A listing of /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin
> shows the following files.
> 
> admin
> admindb
> confirm
> create
> edithtml
> listinfo
> options
> private
> rmlist
> roster
> subscribe
> 
> We thought there should be .cgi files or an index.html
> file in there. How do we point to the file that starts
> the GUI interface?
> 
> Since we are just new to this environment the answer may
> right in front of us and we can't see it.
> 
> Any help from this list would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
> -Bill Mueller
> 
>         William C. Mueller      wcmuelle at wisc.edu     608-262-9886
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#
#  httpd configuration settings for use with mailman.
#
ScriptAlias /mailman/ /var/mailman/cgi-bin/
Alias /pipermail/ /var/mailman/archives/public/
<Directory /var/mailman/archives>
        Options +FollowSymlinks
</Directory>