[Mailman-Users] Apache does not have permission to access pipermail/listname

That's good.


It's bin/check_perms that checks permissions. fix_url changes web and
email host names for the list which chouldn't be necessary in your
situation.


What is the error message in Apache's error_log?

Is this a SELinux or other security manager issue?

I am receiving an apache forbidden page when I try to access my archives
after moving my lists to a new server. My old server was 2.1.8 - new server
is running 2.1.9 and using the same domain name.

Everything is working correctly except the archives...

/etc/httpd/conf.d/mailman.conf has appropriate piper alias
--- cut here ---
Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
<Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public>
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
--- end cut here ---

- Permissions on public archives directory is drwxrwsr-x with symlinks to
private lists
- Permissions on private archives directory is drwxrws--x with directories
below as drwxrwsr-x
- Files within the private folder are world readable with -rw-rw-r--
- I ran the bin/arch script (/usr/lib/mailman/bin/arch listname
archives/private/listname.mbox/listname.mbox)
- I ran the withlist script to verify permissions are correct (./withlist -l
-r fix_url listname)

Don't know what else to try. Haven't found anything in the FAQ or the
Mailman archives. I have tried reading the documentation labyrinth but that
hasn't helped so far - I'm thinking I need a new direction, a new path to
follow - been looking at this too long...

Looking for some help at this point.

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You posted the same issue to this list 4 days ago. My reply is at
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2009-April/065745.html>.

Provide us with some new information and we may be able to help further.

Sorry about the dup post - I never did receive the original post or replies
so I assumed it was lost...

My error_log below
[Tue Apr 14 23:22:14 2009] [error] [client 66.249.73.209] (13)Permission
denied: access to /pipermail/whpnews/2006-February/author.html denied

Looks like you nailed it with your comment about SELinux. I just ran
setenforce 0 and tried again and was able to view the archive. Now the
question is how do I fix the SELinux problem?


-----Original Message-----

Lars Olson wrote:

You posted the same issue to this list 4 days ago. My reply is at
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2009-April/065745.html>.

Provide us with some new information and we may be able to help further.

Sorry, that's a SELinux question, not a Mailman question. I know
essentially zero about SELinux.

Are you running a RedHat Mailman package? If so, it has some changes[1]
to make it more FHS compliant and SELinux friendly so you should be
able to make it work. If this isn't the RedHat package, I don't have a
clue.

[1]
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2004-October/017343.html>

This is a Fedora RPM so I will try the Fedora forums.

Thanks Mark.



Lars Olson wrote:
Sorry, that's a SELinux question, not a Mailman question. I know
essentially zero about SELinux.

Are you running a RedHat Mailman package? If so, it has some changes[1]
to make it more FHS compliant and SELinux friendly so you should be
able to make it work. If this isn't the RedHat package, I don't have a
clue.

[1]
<http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2004-October/017343.htm
l>