Fwd: [Mailman-Users] Mailman CGI error!!!

[jpsota at gmail.com]

Excellent -- that seems to have been the problem.

Now, I have another problem... but I'll create a new post.

Thanks.
jim


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:04:11 -0500, John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com> wrote:
> jpsota at gmail.com wrote:
> > I think we may be getting somewhere because my httpd.conf file is not
> > consistent with yours. I'm running apache2, and I seem to remember
> > installing it from source (although I'm not sure about that).
> 
> hehe ... I'll bite my tounge :-) :-)
> 
> BTW, we've been shipping apache 2 for a long time now.
> 
> > Here's the only User and Group entry in the file:
> >
> > <IfModule !mpm_winnt.c>
> > <IfModule !mpm_netware.c>
> > #
> > # If you wish httpd to run as a different user or group, you must run
> > # httpd as root initially and it will switch.
> > #
> > # User/Group: The name (or #number) of the user/group to run httpd as.
> > #  . On SCO (ODT 3) use "User nouser" and "Group nogroup".
> > #  . On HPUX you may not be able to use shared memory as nobody, and the
> > #    suggested workaround is to create a user www and use that user.
> > #  NOTE that some kernels refuse to setgid(Group) or semctl(IPC_SET)
> > #  when the value of (unsigned)Group is above 60000;
> > #  don't use Group #-1 on these systems!
> > #
> > User nobody
> > Group #-1
> > </IfModule>
> > </IfModule>
> >
> > Should I remove the IfModule clauses and add the following instead?
> >
> > User apache
> > Group apache
> 
> I think, but I'm not sure, you should check the apache doc, but those
> IfModules are saying if you're not on Windows and not on NewWare then
> you must be Unix so set the user and group, thus I think you can leave
> them alone.
> 
> At any rate, User has to be apache and Group has to be apache. I'll bet
> that gets you a lot further. Of course you'll have to restart apache.
> Given that you're not using our rpm I don't know if you've got the right
> init.d script for apache, (using our rpm will assure you've got all this
> ancillary stuff working and configured correctly too). If you do then
> the command as root is:
> 
> /sbin/service httpd restart
> 
> Oh, one more thing apache as a system service is known as "httpd"
> 
> HTH
> 
> John
> --
> John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>
> 
>