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

[Bryan Carbonnell]

On 07/12/05, Andrew Steele <andrew at cnet.org> 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.
>
> If I, instead, access the URL http://airedale.cnet.org/pipermail/ a
> directory listing is displayed showing the archive files by name.
>
> I have checked that the archives are set to be public.
>
> Is there a setting I need to add to a configuration somewhere that
> someone can point me to?  I have seen a similar question posed in the
> list archives but not seen any pointer to a solution.

Check the directory permissions. Full details can be found at
http://list.org/mailman-install/node9.html in the Warning box.

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