[Mailman-Users] Setting up Mailman with Apache on FreeBSD

[John Poltorak]

Hi Odhiambo,

Many thanks for your help. I would never have stumbled on the configuration
you provided. I won't try to understand it just yet, I'll blindly copy and
paste until I have it working.

I can now bring up the *admin* page, as well as everything under *cgi-bin*,
but what should happen if browse

example.org/mailman/ ?  I get a *Forbidden* error. Should there be a
redirection to *listinfo* ?

As for icons, how do I get the Mailman images to show up on the page?

The installation manual:-

http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/node10.html

says
% cp $prefix/icons/*.{jpg,png} /path/to/apache/icons

It appears that the FreeBSD installation has copied them to

/usr/local/www/icons

Apache24 has its icons in

/usr/local/www/apache24/icons

I'm not sure they should be kept seperate, but in any case I copied
those from Mailman into the Apache directory, changed mm_cfg.py to
include

IMAGE_LOGOS = '/usr/local/www/apache24/icons/'

but they don't show up. Any idea why?





On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 7 June 2016 at 20:21, John Poltorak <karotlopj at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have read these instructions, and don't find them that straightforward -
>> at least there must be some thing implied.
>>
>> It isn't very reassuring when it says this or that *may* be required. I
>> suppose the instructions are more general than specific to my environment.
>> I get a *Forbidden * error after adding this line to httpd.conf
>>
>> ScriptAlias /mailman/      /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/
>>
>> I tried both versions of setting permissions in the Directory
>> directive, but it didn't seem to make
>>
>> any difference - I did restart Apache after each change. I'm sure it
>> must be straightforward, but
>>
>> I haven't mastered it yet.
>>
>>
>
> Hi John,
>
> I install Mailman by hand. So here goes, assuming you have installed
> python from the ports or using pkg and you are using recommended python
> version:
>
>
> 1. Download Mailman sources and extract. I also download the
> indexing+htdig patch and apply that to the source then I run:
> ./configure --with-cgi-gid=80 --with-mail-gid=26    # gid 80 is www and
> gid 26 is mailnull (I use Exim as MTA). decide what is your GIDs for both
> make install
>
> Now mailman is installed in /usr/local/mailman
>
> 2. For Apache, you know how to install that, right.
>     You need to include a configuration for Mailman, and you can use mine.
> So at the end of my httpd.conf I have this line:
>
> Include etc/apache24/Includes/*.cf
>
> cd /usr/local/etc/apache24/Includes/ and create mailman.cf as follows
> Please customize the ServerAdmin and anything to do with lists.FQDN to
> match yours:
>
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>   ServerName lists.FQDN
>   ServerAdmin karotlopj at gmail.com
>   RewriteEngine On
>   RewriteRule ^/(mailman|pipermail|icons|htdig)/.+$ - [S=1]
>   RedirectPermanent /htdig /icons/htdig
>   Alias /pipermail "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public"
>   ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/
>   <Directory /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/>
>      Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
>      AllowOverride None
>      Order Allow,Deny
>      Allow from all
>      Require all granted
>   </Directory>
>   <Directory /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/admin/>
>      Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
>      AllowOverride None
>      Order Allow,Deny
>      Allow from all
>      Require all granted
>   </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> Of course run apachectl configtest after this to ensure things are fine
> with Apache.
> For me, I run mailman web UI using SSL, but I am not including that here.
> When the time comes, you can figure that out yourself or ask me in private:)
>
> Now, you also need to create your mm_cfg.py
> inside /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/ as documented. You can request mine too
> but remember I use Exim and not Postfix and a few things will differ.
>
> Oh, you need the configurations for your MTA. For Exim, we have a
> transparent config to we do not create any aliases for a lists in our MTAs
> alias file.
>
> Last but not least cd /usr/local/mailman/bin and run ./check_perms -f
>
> Feel free to discuss with me privately if you get stuck.
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> Nairobi,KE
> +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223
> "Oh, the cruft."
>