[Mailman-Users] Inaccessible public archives

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Sat Jul 5 03:59:10 CEST 2008


Bill Christensen wrote:
>
>I just moved my Mailman/Apache/Postfix server to a new hard drive, 
>and in the process managed to make the public archives inaccessible. 
>Private archives work fine, as does everything else as far as I can 
>tell.
>
>I suspect that the problem has to do with my renaming the root hard 
>drive (though of course the paths would typically still be 
>/usr/local/mailman/ which accounts for most everything still working).
>
>I've tried switching to private archives and back again in the hope 
>of building a new working symlink, but there's no difference.  I made 
>no changes to the Apache config file, and all the paths and rules 
>there look like they should work.
>
>Any ideas where else I should search for a fix?


What does Apache say when you try to access a public archive? What's in
Apache's error log?

Is SELinux or some other security policy management involved?

What are the ownership and permissions of
/usr/local/mailman/archives/private ?  In particular, is it either
owned by the apache user or o+x ?

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