[Mailman-Users] public archive points to private archive directory
Russell L. Carter
rcarter at pinyon.org
Fri Oct 28 00:54:24 CEST 2011
Greetings,
I've just brought up mailman on a debian-testing box
and almost everything works. (Hooray!) The problem I'm having
is that after creating a list, subscribing a user, and
sending a message to the list, I go to the list info
page:
http://lists.pinyon.org/listinfo/testing3
and click on ... visit the Testing3 Archives with
link:
http://lists.pinyon.org/pipermail/testing3/
and I get
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /pipermail/testing3/ on this server.
So ok, this seems to be a permissions problem, and I'm bothering
you all so that I can learn the Right Way(tm) to fix it.
The relevant apache config is:
<Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
Here's the permissions trail (after bin/check_perms -f):
root at quine:/var/lib/mailman# ls
archives/ cgi-bin@ data/ lists/ logs@ Mailman@ qfiles/ spam/
bin@ cron@ icons@ locks@ mail@ messages/ scripts@ templates@
root at quine:/var/lib/mailman# ls -ld archives/
drwxrwsr-x 4 root list 4096 Oct 26 17:59 archives//
root at quine:/var/lib/mailman# ls -ld archives/*
drwxrws--- 6 list list 4096 Oct 27 15:09 archives/private/
drwxrwsr-x 2 root list 4096 Oct 27 15:09 archives/public/
root at quine:/var/lib/mailman# ls -ld archives/public/*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root list 41 Oct 26 18:01 archives/public/mailman ->
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/mailman/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www-data list 42 Oct 27 15:09 archives/public/testing3 ->
/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/testing3/
Hmm, archives/public/testing3 points to archives/private/... but
apache running as www-data can't access archives/private because
private is list:list and with no world readers (as it should be).
However the list testing3 is configured to have *public* archives.
So... why is the public archive pointing to the private one?
What's the Right Way to fix this so that clicking the visit archives
link on a new list doesn't result in a 403 Forbidden barf?
Or have I possibly botched something else?
Many thanks,
Russell
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