[linux] mailman + apache woes

[Garrett Cooper]

Jonathan,
    Is the symlink correct? It may have possibly been malformed between 
emerges. That's the only thing I hate about some packages in Gentoo; 
they have a tendency to be poorly coded to follow the coder's defaults 
:(. Speaking of which, I need to get dispatch-conf up and working :).
-Garrett

jnicol at backnine.org wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I'm at my wit's end trying to get the Mailman archives (pipermail) to work on my
>server. It returns a "403 Forbidden" when I try to access them. The apache error
>log says "Symbolic link not allowed: /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/list".
>Seems like a simple problem, but I'm either missing something incredibly
>obvious, or something incredibly obscure.
>
>My /etc/apache2/conf/modules.d/50_mailman.conf:
>
>ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/"
><Directory "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/">
>        AllowOverride None
>        Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
>        Order allow,deny
>        Allow from all
></Directory>
>Alias /pipermail "/usr/local/mailman/archives/public"
><Directory /usr/local/mailman/archives/public>
>        AllowOverride All
>        Options ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
>        Order allow,deny
>        Allow from all
></Directory>
>
>And from apache2.conf:
>
><Directory />
>  Options -All -Multiviews -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
>  AllowOverride None
>  <IfModule mod_access.c>
>    Order deny,allow
>    Deny from all
>  </IfModule>
></Directory>
>
>
>(for those of you not familiar with Mailman,
>/usr/local/mailman/archives/public/list is a symbolic link to
>/usr/local/mailman/archives/private/list/ which has permissions drwxrwsr-x,
>owned by mailman:mailman.)
>
>I've run the Mailman prog check_perms which reports no problems.
>
>As you can see, I've got +FollowSymLinks everywhere relevant. Googling and
>asking on the Gentoo forums has got me no leads. Some genius help me pleeeease!
>
>
>thanks
>Jonathan
>  
>