[Mailman-Users] Permissions on public archives (apache 403)

[Mark Sapiro]

Michael Berkowski wrote:
>
>All access attempts return:
>Forbidden
>You don't have permission to access /pipermail/xxxxx on this server.
>Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an
>ErrorDocument to handle the request.
>Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) Server xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Port 80


What is in the Apache error_log relating to this?


>Apache reads mailman.conf on startup.  Would it make a difference if I put
>this information into httpd.conf instead?


Probably not.


># mailman.conf #######################
>ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/
><Directory /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/>
>    AllowOverride None
>    Options ExecCGI
>    Order allow,deny
>    Allow from all
></Directory>


Presumably, the above is working, but it has no effect on public
archive access.


>Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
><Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public>
>   Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
>   # Options FollowSymlinks ExecCGI -Indexes -Includes
>    AllowOverride None
>    Order allow,deny
>    Allow from all
></Directory>


The above looks OK to me.


>[root at othello mailman]# ls -l /var/lib/mailman
>total 68
>drwxrwsr-x   5 mailman mailman  4096 May 19 11:43 archives
>drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman mailman 16384 May 26 09:45 data
>drwxrwsr-x  72 mailman mailman  4096 May 22 16:03 lists
>drwxrwsr-x   3 mailman mailman  4096 Apr 17 11:35 locks
>drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman mailman  4096 Apr 17 11:15 logs
>drwxrwsr-x  11 mailman mailman  4096 Apr 17 11:16 qfiles
>drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman mailman  4096 Apr 17 11:14 spam
>
>[root at othello archives]# ls -l /var/lib/mailman/archives/
>total 32
>drwxrws--x  198 mailman mailman 12288 May 22 16:03 private
>drwxrwsr-x    2 mailman mailman  4096 May 22 16:03 public


Permissions look OK too.

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