On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 19:38, Bill Cole < mailmanu-20190...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote:
> On 23 Jul 2020, at 7:40, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > Hello List Admins, > > > > I am somehow at the end of my thinking capacity with this problem, yet > > I > > think it's something minor that a third eye can help me with: > > I have installed mailman-2.1.34 on a brand new box running > > FreeBSD-12.1. > > The problem is that the web UI won't open. It instead prompts me > > to download a file. The contents of the file can be seen from the > > below > > link: > > > > https://pastebin.com/8bh6g6rv > > That's the 'listinfo' ELF binary. That indicates a webserver > misconfiguration: it's sending what it should be executing. > True. Gave me grief. > How I have done the installation: > > 1. I did the manual options > > cd mailman-2.1.34 > > ./configure --with-cgi-gid=80 --with-mail-gid=26 > > make > > make install > > Have you considered the options of installing the prebuilt package or > from the ports tree? Either may work for you without any fuss. > I could do any. Sometimes the prebuilt is behind and I want to test the bleeding edge :-) > > 2. The files in /usr/local/mailman: > [...] > > drwxrwsrwx 22 root mailman 512 Jul 29 2017 mailman > > Probably unrelated, but that's very disturbing. > The directory permissions are now drwxrwsr-x > > [...] > > > VirtualHost configuration: > > > > <VirtualHost *:80> > > Ok, this is for http://whatever... > > > ServerName lists.mydom.ain > > ServerAdmin odhia...@gmail.com > > ErrorLog /var/log/mailman-error.log > > > > RewriteEngine On > > # RedirectPermanent /mailman/ https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/ > > RewriteRule ^/(mailman|pipermail|icons|htdig)/.+$ - [S=1] > > RewriteRule ^/(mailman|pipermail|icons|htdig)(/.*) > > https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1$2$3$4 > > [L,R] > > That kicks you over to a port 443 virtual host. > > > RedirectPermanent /htdig /icons/htdig > > RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ /mailman/listinfo/ > > > > Alias /pipermail "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public" > > <Directory /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/> > > Options Indexes FollowSymlinks > > AllowOverride all > > Order Allow,Deny > > Allow from all > > Require all granted > > </Directory> > > > > ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/ > > This applies to the port 80 vhost. Do you have the same in your port 443 > vhost? > Yes. The port 443 vhost is exactly identical except for the SSL options added. > > > <Directory /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/> > > Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI > > AllowOverride None > > Order Allow,Deny > > Allow from all > > Require all granted > > </Directory> > > </VirtualHost> > > > > > > What is it that I am being blind to that makes the web UI not open? > > My guess: no ScriptAlias directive in the port 443 vhost. > Turned out that cgid module in httpd had remained disabled all this time! > > > Thanking you in advance for being my third eye. > > I hope the above qualifies... > It sure does qualify. Every effort counts and is worthy of appreciation. Thanks. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft.", grep ^[^#] :-) ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/
