Bill Christensen wrote: >At 6:59 PM -0700 7/4/08, Mark Sapiro wrote: >> >>What does Apache say when you try to access a public archive? What's in >>Apache's error log? > >Symbolic link not allowed.
This says you need Options +FollowSymLinks in a <Directory /usr/local/mailman/archives/public> or superordinate block. >>What are the ownership and permissions of >>/usr/local/mailman/archives/private ? In particular, is it either >>owned by the apache user or o+x ? > > >they were were > >drwxrws--- nobody mailman private >drwxrwsr-x billc mailman public > >I looked on the old hd and found them set as > >drwxrwx--- billc mailman private >drwxrwxr-x billc mailman public > >I tried a perms fix, but that didn't do the trick. Permissions and ownership should be as in the first set, assuming Apache runs as user 'nobody'. > >So I tried changing them to that. Bad idea, now I'm getting a "we've >hit a bug in mailman 2.1.9..." message when logging in to the web >interface. I tried another perms fix, and the symptoms are >unchanged. > >Help, Mr Wizard! I have no idea how to set an "rws" to get it back >to broken but generally functional. chmod g+s will do it, but just to make sure everything is right, do it this way: chmod 2770 /usr/local/mailman/archives/private chown nobody:mailman /usr/local/mailman/archives/private chmod 2775 /usr/local/mailman/archives/public Then put the Options +FollowSymLinks in an appropriate Directory block in the Apache config. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
