[Mailman-Users] Mailman CGI not working
Hello, I'm a newbie, and have just installed mailman on Red Hat 9, with the apache web server. None of it was done with rpm, I downloaded, configured and compiled from both apache.org and the mailman site. I've created the 'mailman' list, after having gone through all install docs. Mailman's cgi does not work, however. The documentation said to check the apache group setting, which is at the default right now #-1, but I have changed it to gid 99, to no avail. Default cgi group is apparently www in mailman, although the username is nobody in apache (gid 99 in redhat) for httpd. How do I get the mailman cgi to work? I've set the scriptalias directive in apache to /mailman/ /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin I also tried re-running the configure script using the --with-cgi-id , but no matter what it seems to use www. The first mailing from the mailman list went to my email ok, returning the link .vcd.hp.com/mailman/admin/mailman, but all that is returned is the "object not found - the requested URL was not found on this server" Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Randy Foo Unix System Administrator The Kemtah Group at Hewlett Packard -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman CGI not working
i have just been setting up a server and had some similar problems, you need to check that the group that mailman first matches for running its cgi scripts is the group that the apache server is running by default mailman will check for www then www-data and then nobody (see install doc), on a redhat machine that i have the www and www-data groups do not exist but nobody does with id 99, and the default RH9 apache server runs as group, and user, apache GUID 48 if you have not used the --with-cgi-gid option then you need to use the User and Group options for apache to set the server to run as nobody or whatever group mailman first macthes once you haev done this try a webpage such as http:///mailman/admin, a gotcha that hit me is that just looking at http:///mailman/ will not work as there is not default script or index page for the server to display and you will probably get an error James At 23/10/2003 23:57:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a newbie, and have just installed mailman on Red Hat 9, with the > apache web server. None of it was done with rpm, I downloaded, > configured and compiled from both apache.org and the mailman site. I've > created the 'mailman' list, after having gone through all install docs. > Mailman's cgi does not work, however. The documentation said to check > the apache group setting, which is at the default right now #-1, but I > have changed it to gid 99, to no avail. Default cgi group is apparently > www in mailman, although the username is nobody in apache (gid 99 in > redhat) for httpd. How do I get the mailman cgi to work? I've set the > scriptalias directive in apache to /mailman/ /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin > > I also tried re-running the configure script using the --with-cgi-id , > but no matter what it seems to use www. > > The first mailing from the mailman list went to my email ok, returning > the link .vcd.hp.com/mailman/admin/mailman, but all that is > returned is the "object not found - the requested URL was not found on > this server" > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Randy Foo > Unix System Administrator > The Kemtah Group at Hewlett Packard > > -- > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe or change your options at > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/james.osbourn%40globalgra > phics.com > -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman CGI not working
On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 08:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: once you haev done this try a webpage such as http:///mailman/admin, a gotcha that hit me is that just looking at http:///mailman/ will not work as there is not default script or index page for the server to display and you will probably get an error I use the following RewriteRule in my Apached httpd.conf to avoid this: RewriteRule ^/mailman(|/)$ /mailman/listinfo [PT] James --- Richard Barrett http://www.openinfo.co.uk -- Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
RE: [Mailman-Users] Mailman CGI not working
Thanks for your help, However, I've tried changing the group that apache runs httpd under to www, and that didn't work. For some unknown reason, I cannot get httpd to run as any id other than apache. The apache conf file says to run httpd as root, and then it will change over, but I haven't seen that. I ran configure again using --with-cgi-id=nobody, and then make install again and it took this time. But the CGI still does not run. I set the User to nobody, and Group to 99 in the apache httpd.conf file. Any other suggestions? Regards, Randy Foo Unix System Administrator/FW support The Kemtah Group at Hewlett Packard Telnet 212-6186 Here's the http.conf setup: # If you wish httpd to run as a different user or group, you must run # httpd as root initially and it will switch. # # User/Group: The name (or #number) of the user/group to run httpd as. # . On SCO (ODT 3) use "User nouser" and "Group nogroup". # . On HPUX you may not be able to use shared memory as nobody, and the #suggested workaround is to create a user www and use that user. # NOTE that some kernels refuse to setgid(Group) or semctl(IPC_SET) # when the value of (unsigned)Group is above 6; # don't use Group #-1 on these systems! # User nobody Group #99 #Group #-1 # ScriptAlias: This controls which directories contain server scripts. # ScriptAliases are essentially the same as Aliases, except that # documents in the realname directory are treated as applications and # run by the server when requested rather than as documents sent to the client. # The same rules about trailing "/" apply to ScriptAlias directives as to # Alias. # ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/" #CGI script enablement directive # ScriptAlias /cgi/bin/ /usr/local/apache2/cgi/bin /usr/local/apache2/cgi/bin ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin # "/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin" should be changed to whatever your ScriptAliased # CGI directory exists, if you have that configured. # AllowOverride None Options None Order allow,deny Allow from all AllowOverride None Options None Order allow,deny Allow from all -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 12:30 AM To: Foo, Randy Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Mailman CGI not working i have just been setting up a server and had some similar problems, you need to check that the group that mailman first matches for running its cgi scripts is the group that the apache server is running by default mailman will check for www then www-data and then nobody (see install doc), on a redhat machine that i have the www and www-data groups do not exist but nobody does with id 99, and the default RH9 apache server runs as group, and user, apache GUID 48 if you have not used the --with-cgi-gid option then you need to use the User and Group options for apache to set the server to run as nobody or whatever group mailman first macthes once you haev done this try a webpage such as http:///mailman/admin, a gotcha that hit me is that just looking at http:///mailman/ will not work as there is not default script or index page for the server to display and you will probably get an error James At 23/10/2003 23:57:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a newbie, and have just installed mailman on Red Hat 9, with the > apache web server. None of it was done with rpm, I downloaded, > configured and compiled from both apache.org and the mailman site. > I've created the 'mailman' list, after having gone through all install > docs. Mailman's cgi does not work, however. The documentation said to > check the apache group setting, which is at the default right now #-1, > but I have changed it to gid 99, to no avail. Default cgi group is > apparently www in mailman, although the username is nobody in apache > (gid 99 in > redhat) for httpd. How do I get the mailman cgi to work? I've set the > scriptalias directive in apache to /mailman/ /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin > > I also tried re-running the configure script using the --with-cgi-id , > but no matter what it seems to use www. > > The first mailing from the mailman list went to my email ok, returning > the link .vcd.hp.com/mailman/admin/mailman, but all that is > returned is the "object not found - the requested URL was not found on > this server" > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Randy Foo > Unix System Administrator > The Kemtah Group at Hewlett Packard > > -- > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm
