Re: Mailman and obhttpd

Put this down for a while. Eventually came back to it. Apparently, the
proper syntax is
       location "/Mailman/*" {
                fastcgi socket "/var/www/run/slowcgi.sock"
                root "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/"
                request strip 1

Works perfectly now. Thanks.

On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 12:03 AM Software Info <softwareinfojam@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks very much for your reply. I had tried that exact line but when
> I ran obhttpd -n I kept getting a syntax error on line 12. That's the
> line that has
> root { "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/", strip 1 }   When I changed the
> line to root "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/" the sytax error went away.
> Could it be that the FreeBSD version of HTTPD doesn't support all the
> options that the OpenBSD version does?
>
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 10:00 PM Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com> wrote:
> >
> > Not an expert on the openbsd https but from what I recall Your root should look more like root { “/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin“, strip 1 } — your current configuration is telling it to exec the directory, which obviously won’t work. … the latter tells it to take the URI and strip one component off to complete the filesystem part to the CGI…
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 14:12 Software Info <softwareinfojam@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I am trying to get OpenBSD’s httpd working with Mailman but I am
> >> having some issues. I am using obhttpd-7.0.20211221 on FreeBSD 13.1
> >> and I used the suggestions found at
> >> https://www.quernus.co.uk/2015/09/28/running-mailman-on-openbsd/ When
> >> I try to access the site http://mailman.mydomain.com/Mailman/admin I
> >> get a 500 internal server error. I tried running both httpd and
> >> slowcgi without daemonizing them and I keep seeing this error on the
> >> screen: slowcgi: execve /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin: Permission denied.
> >> Not sure why I am getting that since both httpd and slowcgi run as www
> >> and the cgi-bin directory is owned by www and has 755 permissions on
> >> it. At a loss. Any help would be appreciated.
> >>
> >>
> >> Here are my config files below.
> >>
> >> [obhttpd.conf]
> >> chroot "/"
> >> logdir "/var/log"
> >> server "mailman.mydomain.com" {
> >> listen on * port 80
> >> root "/usr/local/mailman/"
> >> log access "obhttpd-access.log"
> >> log error "obhttpd-error.log"
> >> location "/Mailman/*" {
> >> fastcgi socket "/var/www/run/slowcgi.sock"
> >> root "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin"
> >> }
> >>
> >> location "/icons/*" {
> >> root "/usr/local/mailman/icons/"
> >> }
> >>
> >> location "/pipermail/*" {
> >> root "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public/"
> >> }
> >> }
> >>
> >> [rc.conf]
> >> obhttpd_enable="YES"
> >> slowcgi_enable="YES"
> >> slowcgi_flags="-p /"
> >>
> > --
> >
> > "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors
> > into trouble of all kinds."
> > -- Samuel Butler