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[Olivier Salaün <address@concealed>]

Hi Troy,

I don't think it's feasable to map the '/' URL to wwsympa because you'll 
have problems while accessing static contents (CSS, icons). You should 
rather try running sympa's web interface through the /sympa URL first 
and then have a try with mod_rewrite

Concerning your 403 error problems, you should dig deaper into your 
Apache log file that probably provides more detailed explanations.

You are using  suexec to run wwsympa as the 'sympa' user. I'd recommend 
you have a try with sudo instead. It implies that 1) you configure sympa 
with the --enable-secure option  2)  you configure sudo.

BTW, telling what version of Sympa you installed could help..

Troy Davis wrote:

> Before I get too far, is there an IRC channel that sympa users  
> congregate on?
>
> I've been trying to get wwsympa working on a Fedora Core 4 machine.  
> Right now I'm getting a 403 error when attempting to access the Web  
> interface. The server logs say "(13)Permission denied: access to /  
> denied". Sympa is installed and running, here's the config statement  
> I used:
>
> [...]
> The server runs sympa as a separate virtualhost, here's the relevant  
> portions of httpd.conf (the first virtualhost is a mod_perl app):
>
> [...]
> #FastCgiWrapper /usr/sbin/suexec
> #FastCgiIpcDir /tmp/fastcgi
> #FastCgiServer /usr/local/sympa-stable/bin/wwsympa.fcgi -processes 3 - 
> idle-timeout 120
>
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>     LogLevel debug
>     SuexecUserGroup sympa sympa
>     ServerName sympa.company.com
>     DocumentRoot /usr/local/sympa-stable/bin
>     AddHandler fastcgi-script fcgi
>     Alias /static-sympa /usr/local/sympa-stable/static_content
>     ScriptAlias / /usr/local/sympa-stable/bin/wwsympa.fcgi
>     <Directory /usr/local/sympa-stable/bin>
>         Options +ExecCGI
>     </Directory>
>     <Location />
>         AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
>     </Location>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> User and Group are set to apache near the top of httpd.conf, of course.
>
> I'm puzzled as to what I should do to get this working. Should I  
> change ownership / permissions on sympa's files? I'd like to avoid  
> running another instance of apache if possible, that sounds messy.  
> Apache2 doesn't allow the use of the User or Group directives in  
> VirtualHosts, so I'm not sure what to do.
>
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.