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. --- Browser error message --- You don't have permission to access /pipermail/list/ on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. --- snip --- Here is what apache places in the error_log: --- snip --- Symbolic link not allowed or link target not accessible: /usr/home/mailman/archives/public/list, referer: http://hostname.garbled.com/mailman/listinfo/list ---- snip ---- Here is what I've done so far: ---- apache httpd.conf file ---- in the 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> --- snip --- then restarted apache. --- snip --- looks like the directories have proper permissions: typhoon# ls -ld /usr/local/mailman/archives/private drwxrws--- 103 mailman mailman 2560 Apr 21 21:49 /usr/local/mailman/archives/private typhoon# ls -ld /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/ drwxrwsr-x 2 mailman mailman 1536 Apr 21 21:49 /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/ typhoon# ls -ld /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/list lrwxr-xr-x 1 root mailman 54 Apr 21 19:00 /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/list -> /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/list typhoon# ls -ld /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/list drwxrwsr-x 50 www mailman 4096 Apr 21 18:34 /usr/local/mailman/archives/private/list --- snip --- what else could be the problem here? cheers, Noah