[Mailman-Users] 403 Forbidden - You don't have permission to access/pipermail/

[Mark Sapiro]

Andrew Steele wrote:

>I have discovered that our mailman installation returns a 403 
>Forbidden error when trying to access archives from the web pages.
>
>The links all point, correctly, to 
>http://airedale.cnet.org/pipermail/list_name
>
>Accessing that URL returns a message stating:
>
>Forbidden
>
>You don't have permission to access /pipermail/list_name on this 
>server.

Most likely, you haven't told your web server that it is OK to follow
symlinks in this directory.

E.g. in Apache you may have something like

  Alias /pipermail/ /var/mailman/archives/public/

You also need

  <Directory /var/mailman/archives>
          Options +FollowSymlinks
  </Directory>

To allow symlinks to be followed anywhere in the archives (there is
also one in the monthly archive linking index.html to thread.html).

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