Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 13:36:02 -0500 From: Software Info <softwareinfojam@gmail.com> To: Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com> Cc: Nick Kostirya via freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mailman and obhttpd Message-ID: <CAFPCYA1zY9y4N8OR%2Bs-EY9Hju=3aHjdNOqoZbkF5mFKXWndutw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFPCYA03eddwSWOnmO4uCpvmncbeyMF0n8emo_t%2By55-%2BL9MHA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFPCYA2ef5MwNYg1BvqXvQnOgH4GeT6DUieGp4dKRGXY4j0E4Q@mail.gmail.com> <CAHDg04uJHNLc9DL6%2BVyettLz6XfKVY2AdberdGC%2BhbCOcj%2B_BA@mail.gmail.com> <CAFPCYA03eddwSWOnmO4uCpvmncbeyMF0n8emo_t%2By55-%2BL9MHA@mail.gmail.com>
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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> w=
rote:
>
> 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 sho=
uld look more like root { =E2=80=9C/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin=E2=80=9C, str=
ip 1 } =E2=80=94 your current configuration is telling it to exec the direc=
tory, which obviously won=E2=80=99t work. =E2=80=A6 the latter tells it to =
take the URI and strip one component off to complete the filesystem part to=
the CGI=E2=80=A6
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 14:12 Software Info <softwareinfojam@gmail.com> =
wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I am trying to get OpenBSD=E2=80=99s 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=3D"YES"
> >> slowcgi_enable=3D"YES"
> >> slowcgi_flags=3D"-p /"
> >>
> > --
> >
> > "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its posses=
sors
> > into trouble of all kinds."
> > -- Samuel Butler
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