[Mailman-Users] public archives not accessible (Forbidden 403) - Fixed

[Jewel]

It's fixed!  Once I changed the permissions on my private directory using:

chmod o+x private

I was able to access the public archives.

Thanks!
Jewel

Mark Sapiro wrote:
>> drwxrws--- 202 mailman mailman 12288 Nov 14 09:15 private
>> drwxrwsr-x   2 mailman mailman  4096 Nov 14 09:15 public
>>     
>
>
> At least part of the problem is the private/ directory's ownership and
> permission.
>
> You need to do one of the following:
>
> chmod o+x private
>
> or
>
> chown apache private
>
> where 'apache' is the user that the web server runs as. If your web
> server runs as some other user (maybe 'www' or 'nobody') you need to
> use that instead.
>
> In other words, archives/private must be either o+x or owned by the
> user the web server runs as (set by the User directive in httpd.conf).
>
>
>   
>> Also, i am confused what /pipermail/ really is.  I don't see a directory
>> called pipermail. 
>>     
>
>
> There is no 'pipermail' directory. You have (or should have) in
> httpd.conf
>
> Alias /pipermail/ "/usr/lib/mailman/archives/public/"
>
> This directive overrides the DocumentRoot directive for URLs of the
> form http://www.example.com/pipermail/... and says to look for
> /usr/lib/mailman/archives/public/... to satisfy that request.
>
>
> I am confused about what's going on. You were getting a 403 which was
> caused by the ownership/premissions on archives/private.
>
> Now you're getting a 404 because you either removed the
>
> Alias /pipermail/ "/usr/lib/mailman/archives/public/"
>
> or it's in a <VirtualHost> block for a host other than the one you are
> accessing. The 404 is because apache is looking for pipermail in the
> DocumentRoot /var/www/html/ because the Alias /pipermail/ has gone
> missing.
>
>   

-- 
Jewel Makda
Student Computer Services Coordinator