From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 29 18:18:17 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE2716A41F for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:18:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25AC643D75 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:18:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from [172.26.2.238] ([172.26.2.238]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j7TIICG1063579; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:18:12 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <4313509A.2030100@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:14:50 -0500 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Kellers References: <20050829172012.GA8261@thought.org> <200508291409.52670.kellers@njit.edu> In-Reply-To: <200508291409.52670.kellers@njit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailman: 403: browser access forbidden. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:18:17 -0000 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/, e.g. /mailman/listinfo, and not just /mailman/ by itself. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348