mailman: 403: browser access forbidden.

[Gary Kline]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 02:09:51PM -0400, Tim Kellers wrote:
> 
> 
> On Monday 29 August 2005 01:20 pm, Gary Kline wrote:
> > 	I first set up mailman (with its web automation) last
> > 	December.  When I recently tried to send a test message
> > 	to my list, mailman spitout the old "reset configure with
> > 	daemon" gid. Which failed.  Eventually I reinstalled from
> > 	scratch.  Now, using lynx and "www.thought.org/mainman"
> > 	I'm getting:
> >
> >
> >                                    Forbidden
> >
> >    You don't have permission to access /mailman/ on this server.
> >
> >
> > 	Without resubbing to the mailman list, does anybody know
> > 	what I need to do to resolve this?  Yes, mailman:: 91:91
> > 	is a nologin acct.  I've followed everything, including
> > 	the FreeBSD readme in the /usr/local/share/doc/mailman
> > 	directory.
> >
> > 	thanks,
> >
> > 	gary
> >
> > 	PS:  I have googled around for "mailman, 403, freebsd"
> > 	     without results.    :-|
> 
> 
> Do you have: ScriptAlias /mailman "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin"
> 
> defined in httpd.conf?

	I think I changed the "/mailman" to "/mailman/" as  
	per the docs.


    ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin"

	Yep.  I'll try without ad restart everything.

	Nope: still get the 403....

> 
> Does /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin have permissions that look like this?
> 
> # ls -la /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin
> total 200
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman    512 Apr 25 14:17 .
> drwxrwsr-x  20 mailman  mailman    512 Apr 25 14:16 ..
> -rwxr-sr-x   1 root     mailman  17730 Apr 25 14:17 admin
> -rwxr-sr-x   1 root     mailman  17734 Apr 25 14:17 admindb
> 
> Tim


drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mailman    512 Aug 28 23:53 .
drwxrwsr-x  20 mailman  mailman    512 Aug 28 23:51 ..
-rwxr-sr-x   1 root     mailman  13197 Aug 28 23:53 admin


	gary

	PS: BTW, I created a "test" list anf mailman sent the
	ACK ... by there was no "admin/test" ...


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