Re: You don't have permission to access /pipermail/ on this server.

[Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Noah wrote:
> mailman-2.1.7
> apache 2.2.0
>
> Okay I just upgrade from apache 1.3.x to apache 2.2.0 and arriving at a
> permissions problem when viewing pipermail mailman directories:
>
>
> ---s nip ---
>
> You don't have permission to access /pipermail/garbled-name/ on this server.
>
> --- snip ---
>
>
> Here is what I've done so far:
>
> ---- apache httpd.conf file ----
>
> int he virtual host stanza
>
>         ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/home/mailman/cgi-bin/
>         Alias /pipermail/ /usr/home/mailman/archives/public/
>         Alias /icons/ /usr/home/mailman/icons/
>         <Directory /usr/home/mailman/archives/public/>
>                   Options +FollowSymlinks
>                   Allow from all 
>         </Directory>
>
> ---s nip ---
>
> restarted apache.
>
> and I ran bin/check_perms
>
> --- snip----
>
> # /usr/home/mailman/bin/check_perms -f
> No problems found
>
> =---- snip ----
>
>
> what else could be the problem here?

Possibly SELinux. You don't have the data under /var/www so it's likely 
they'll have the wrong contexts.

try:
# chcon -R -t httpd_sys_script_exec_t /usr/home/mailman/cgi-bin
# chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /usr/home/mailman/{archives,icons}

Paul.