[Mailman-Users] Yum install of mailman on CentOS 5

[Mark Sapiro]

Duncan Drury wrote:

>I am trying to get mailman working via a yum install on CentOS 5, which is
>based on a RedHat rpm of mailman 2.1.9.
>
>I am unable to get the mailman cgi-bin scripts to run via Apache.  Rather
>than running the scripts, Apache will send the listinfo file to my browser.


What listinfo file? The binary wrapper?


>I am able to get scripts in other ScriptAlias directories to run, so as far
>as I can tell my basic setup of Apache is ok.


If Apache is actually delivering the /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin wrapper
files instead of executing them, there is something wrong with the
apache config.

What do apache's access_log and error_log say for the access?


>The yum install creates the following apache directives:
>
>#
>#  httpd configuration settings for use with mailman.
>#
>
>ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/
><Directory /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/>
>    AllowOverride None
>    Options ExecCGI
>    Order allow,deny
>    Allow from all
></Directory>
>
>
>Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
><Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public>
>    Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
>    AllowOverride None
>    Order allow,deny
>    Allow from all
></Directory>
>
># Uncomment the following line, replacing www.example.com with your server's
># name, to redirect queries to /mailman to the listinfo page (recommended).
>
>RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo


and presumably puts them in /etc/httpd/conf.d/mailman.conf. Is there
anything in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf that might contradict the
ScriptAlias?


>Permissions in my /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin are as follows:
>
># ls -la
>total 104
>drwxrwsr-x  2 root mailman 4096 Jul 11 00:18 .
>drwxrwsr-x 13 root mailman 4096 Jul 10 23:38 ..
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 6844 May 24 21:44 admin
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 6852 May 24 21:44 admindb
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 6852 May 24 21:44 confirm
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 6852 May 24 21:44 create
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 6856 May 24 21:44 edithtml
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 6856 May 24 21:44 listinfo
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 6852 May 24 21:44 options
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 6852 May 24 21:44 private
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 6852 May 24 21:44 rmlist
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 6852 May 24 21:44 roster
>-rwxr-sr-x  1 root mailman 6856 May 24 21:44 subscribe


Permissions are as they should be.


>I'm able to run these scripts from shell (although they don't like being run
>as any user other than apache and stop).


That's as it should be, so they work.

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