Apologies for posting an installation problem... :(
I've just installed mailman, and am having a couple of problems. The first is that http://dom.ain/mailman/ returns '403 forbidden', and any other page (ie. http://dom.ain/create) returns '500 internal server error'.
The INSTALL file suggests that this could be a GID/UID problem, but this doesn't seem very likely and I'm reluctant to reinstall (yet). There's nothing relevant in either /var/log (apart from the Apache logs, below), or in $prefix/logs/error.
There's nothing in Apache's 'error_log', but 'cgi.log' has some interesting entries:
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[2005-04-27 11:07:05]: uid: (mailman/mailman) gid: (mailman/mailman) cmd: create
[2005-04-27 11:07:05]: directory is writable by others: (/usr/local/home/mailman/mailman-2.1.5/cgi-bin)
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I installed as user/grp mailman/mailman, and 'check_perms' reports no problems. The cgi-bin directory in the message above is not actually 'writable by others'; its permissions are 'drwxrwsr-x'. I tried 'chmod o+w', but this made no difference (and the message in cgi.log remained the same).
Any ideas? One potential problem is that I've installed this on a virtual server on which I don't have root permissions. I get an 'admin' login which has various root-like capabilities, and I think I've probably completed the root parts of the installation correctly, but I can't be sure. The server is running Linux, but I don't think it's a standard distribution; 'uname -a' returns 'Linux [mydomain] 2.4.29-hs-1'.
Many thanks -
RT
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