MAILMAN not showing

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#1

Hey guys,

I’m trying to setup Mailman on my OpenSUSE 12.3, I’m following these steps:

  1. Install mailman
  2. run ‘a2enflag MAILMAN’
  3. Restart Apache

But I keep getting a 404 page not found when I go to http://localhost/mailman

I checked /etc/apache2/conf.d/mailman.conf and it has this:

# the <IfDefine MAILMAN> block means that the contained configuration is not
# active unless apache is started with '-D MAILMAN'. This server flag
# is passed at start time if it is set in /etc/sysconfig/apache2 -- which can
# be set by running the command 'a2enflag MAILMAN'.

<IfDefine MAILMAN>

ScriptAlias     /mailman/       /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/
Alias           /mailmanicons/  /usr/lib/mailman/icons/
Alias           /pipermail/     /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/

<Directory /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin>
        order allow,deny
        allow from all
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/lib/mailman/icons>
        order allow,deny
        allow from all
</Directory>

<Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/>
        Options +FollowSymLinks
        order allow,deny
        allow from all
</Directory>

</IfDefine>

I checked the status of Apache and it shows this:

apache2.service - apache
          Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled)
          Active: active (running) since Tue, 2014-02-25 15:39:55 EST; 5min ago
         Process: 13465 ExecStop=/usr/sbin/httpd2 -D SYSTEMD -k stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
         Process: 11842 ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
         Process: 11822 ExecReload=/usr/sbin/start_apache2 -D SYSTEMD -t (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
         Process: 13469 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/start_apache2 -D SYSTEMD -k start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
        Main PID: 13488 (/usr/sbin/httpd)
          CGroup: name=systemd:/system/apache2.service
                  ├ 13488 /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -DSSL -DMAILMAN -D SYSTEMD -k start
                  ├ 13490 /usr/bin/mono /usr/lib/mono/2.0/mod-mono-server2.exe --filename /tmp/mod_mono_server_global --nonstop --maste...
                  ├ 13491 /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -DSSL -DMAILMAN -D SYSTEMD -k start
                  ├ 13499 /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -DSSL -DMAILMAN -D SYSTEMD -k start
                  ├ 13502 /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -DSSL -DMAILMAN -D SYSTEMD -k start
                  ├ 13503 /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -DSSL -DMAILMAN -D SYSTEMD -k start
                  ├ 13504 /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -DSSL -DMAILMAN -D SYSTEMD -k start
                  └ 13509 /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf -DSSL -DMAILMAN -D SYSTEMD -k start

Which tells me that MAILMAN is defined so it should be working.

Any ideas?

#2

Mybe I am wrong, but when your URL is http://localhost/mailman and your congig says

ScriptAlias     /mailman/       /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/

that means imho that Apache will look into the directory /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/.

I can not find in your post any proof that

  1. that directory does exist;
  2. that that directory contains any file that Apache would serve as default (you not specifying any file in the URL).
#3

More info:

I also followed the install steps from:

http://en.opensuse.org/Mailman

I created a list using /usr/lib/mailman/bin/newlist mailman but I get this when I try to start the daemon:

Starting mailmanSite list is missing mailman

And it fails.

Any ideas?

#4

The folder exist, it contains:

admin
admindb
confirm
create
editarch
edithtml
listinfo
options
private
rmlist
roster
subscribe

They are scripts, not HTML files, but since the mailman daemon is not starting I don’t think this the reason why.

#5

Never mind, I found the problem, I added add_virtualhost(‘localhost’,‘localhost’) to /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py, then I went to http://localhost/mailman/create, created mailman, started the service and this time it came up.

I also learned that the URL to visit is http://localhost/mailman/admin, not just http://localhost/mailman

Thanks anyway.

#6

Thank you for reporting how you managed. It may help others.

That is what I tried to find out. You have to specify a file, either explicit (like you do now), or implicit (like you did earlier). But in the last case, that implicit file (like index.html) should be there.

BTW, please next time when you report the existence and contents of a directory (or any other comupter text), please do so by copy/past from the terminal of prompt, command, output and next prompt between CODE tags in a post here. You get the CODE tags by clicking on the # button in the tool bar of the post editor.