77725 – net-mail/mailman insists on using apache

Bug 77725 - net-mail/mailman insists on using apache

Summary: net-mail/mailman insists on using apache

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Hanno Böck

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Reported:	2005-01-12 11:55 UTC by Andreas Korinek
Modified:	2006-11-24 12:09 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Andreas Korinek 2005-01-12 11:55:07 UTC

mailman can be used with any webserver like lighttpd, but insists on installing apache. Please modify DEPEND to detect any webserver, not only apache

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Tuan Van (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-12 14:23:13 UTC

do you have a setup that works? If you do then I'll add lighttpd to DEPEND.

Comment 2 Andreas Korinek 2005-01-14 07:50:02 UTC

I tried it and it works with a little tweaking:
- You have to create two symlinks in /var/www/localhost/htdocs:
mailman -> /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/
pipermail -> /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/

- In /etc/lighttpd.conf you have to change:
cgi.assign                  = ( ".pl"  => "/usr/bin/perl",
                                ".cgi" => "/usr/bin/perl")

to :
cgi.assign                  = ( ".pl"  => "/usr/bin/perl",
                                ".cgi" => "/usr/bin/perl",
                                "admin" => "",
                                "admindb" => "",
                                "confirm" => "",
                                "create" => "",
                                "edithtml"=>  "",
                                "htdig" => "",
                                "listinfo" => "",
                                "mmsearch" => "",
                                "options" => "",
                                "private" => "",
                                "rmlist" => "",
                                "roster" => "",
                                "subscribe" => "")

The user and group have like this:

## change uid to <uid> (default: don't care)
server.username            = "lighttpd"

## change uid to <uid> (default: don't care)
server.groupname           = "apache"

Comment 3 Hanno Böck gentoo-dev

2006-11-24 12:09:11 UTC

I have added an optional dep to lighttpd, although I'n not using it anywhere, so I can't test. Report any problems that might occur.