[Mailman-Users] Installation problem: 500 internal server error

[Jim Tittsler]

On Apr 27, 2005, at 19:26, RT wrote:

> I've just installed mailman, and am having a couple of problems. The 
> first is that http://dom.ain/mailman/ returns '403 forbidden',

That is normal.  Users normally should visit 
http://dom.ain/mailman/listinfo/ and administrators visit 
http://dom.ain/mailman/admin/.  Many Mailman administrators will 
include an Apache redirectmatch to bounce visitors from 
http://dom.ain/mailman/ to http://dom.ain/mailman/listinfo/

>  and any other page (ie. http://dom.ain/create) returns '500 internal 
> server error'.

With a normal installation, you should be visiting 
http://dom.ain/mailman/create/

> ----
> [2005-04-27 11:07:05]: uid: (mailman/mailman) gid: (mailman/mailman) 
> cmd: create
> [2005-04-27 11:07:05]: directory is writable by others: 
> (/usr/local/home/mailman/mailman-2.1.5/cgi-bin)
> ----

Are you trying to use Apache's suEXEC feature?  It conflicts with the 
normal Mailman installation.  You will need to make sure the cgi-bin 
directory is not group writable.  (Once over that hurdle, you will 
probably then have to make sure that the files in cgi-bin don't have 
the SGID bit set, and are owned by the correct user/group so that 
suEXEC can set the group for the scripts.)

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