Re: mailman: 403: browser access forbidden.

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Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us>
Date
29 Aug 2005 18:18:17
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Re: mailman: 403: browser access forbidden.
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Tim Kellers wrote:
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> 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.

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Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator
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