All, I'm trying to get mailman up and running, using Apache as the web server, and I appear to have run into a fundamental and insoluble problem.
Now, please be gentle with me, it's a good 15 years since I last used Linux servers in anger, and I am very far from being an expert with Apache configuration, so there may be a very dumb question coming up. I have the mailman lists working correctly, I can subscribe to lists, send messages, and so on. However, I have the apparently widespread problem that the admin web pages just silently ignore commands. Reading through this list, I see that this is apparently due to the ScriptAlias redirection just silently dumping the data content of HTTP POST requests. Which seems a bit odd to me, but what do I know? The standard installation of mailman uses the following httpd conf directives: ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ <Directory /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/> AllowOverride None Options ExecCGI Require all granted </Directory> This makes sense to me, redirecting calls to /mailman/<cgiscript> through to the directory in which those scripts are installed. But if the standard package setup uses HTTP POST, and ScriptAlias dumps HTTP POST data, how could this ever work? The documentation says that the Exec directive can be used as an alternative, which would seem to side-step this problem, but I cannot find the Exec directive anywhere in the Apache documentation. Can anyone provide a sample config that works, please? I'm thoroughly confused, and none of the threads I've found on this list show any kind of full solution. Regards, Geoff ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org