Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:14:50 -0500 From: Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us> To: Tim Kellers <kellers@njit.edu> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailman: 403: browser access forbidden. Message-ID: <4313509A.2030100@scls.lib.wi.us> In-Reply-To: <200508291409.52670.kellers@njit.edu> References: <20050829172012.GA8261@thought.org> <200508291409.52670.kellers@njit.edu>
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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. [snip] > 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 Even with correct permissions, I think you get 403 if you ask for /mailman/ by itself, unless your Apache config allows automatic directory indexing, which of course it ought not on cgi-bin stuff. Try accessing some /mailman/<component>, e.g. /mailman/listinfo, and not just /mailman/ by itself. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) <gregb at scls.lib.wi.us>, (608) 266-6348
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