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I am trying to install mailman on my local machine. I am using debian 8. I installed mailman simply using apt-get install mailman. Then i copied mailman.conf file to /etc/apache2/sites-available/mailman.conf.

Now when i am trying to open this link in my browser localhost/mailman/listinfo then instead of opening the page it is downloading that script which should not be happening.

This is mailman.conf file.

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/
# And the public archives:
Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
# Logos:
Alias /images/mailman/ /usr/share/images/mailman/

# Use this if you don't want the "cgi-bin" component in your URL:
# In case you want to access mailman through a shorter URL you should enable
# this:
ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/
# In this case you need to set the DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN in
# /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py to http://%s/mailman/ for the cookie
# authentication code to work.  Note that you need to change the base
# URL for all the already-created lists as well.

<Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/>
  AllowOverride None
  Options ExecCGI
  AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
#     Order allow,deny
#    Allow from all
  Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/>
  Options FollowSymlinks
  AllowOverride None
#    Order allow,deny
#    Allow from all
  Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share/images/mailman/>
  AllowOverride None
#    Order allow,deny
#    Allow from all
  Require all granted
</Directory>

This is what i am getting now on doing tail -f *.log in /var/log/apache2. In my browser i put this localhost/cgi-bin/mailman/confirm

::1 - - [01/Jun/2015:14:43:36 +0530] "GET /cgi-bin/mailman/confirm HTTP/1.1" 200 10463 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0 Iceweasel/31.6.0"

I am confused as what to do.

shivams
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  • This indicates that the script handler is not active. Check the apache config if it matches your setup. Also try https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-and-configure-mailman-with-postfix-on-debian-squeeze –  Jun 01 '15 at 08:54
  • @EliDevender what is apache configbifbit ? Please care to explain. – shivams Jun 01 '15 at 08:57
  • "Config if it" sorry... –  Jun 01 '15 at 08:58
  • @EliDevender I have edited my question with mailman.conf file. I am not able to find anything out of ordinary in it. – shivams Jun 01 '15 at 09:07
  • Seems to be ok. Any error in your apache log? –  Jun 01 '15 at 09:08
  • @EliDevender I have edited my question with apache logs. They seems ok giving 200. – shivams Jun 01 '15 at 09:15

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In my own fresh Apache2 installation on Debian 8, I found to my surprise that the CGI Apache module was not enabled by default. This may the case in your situation as well.

Try:

sudo a2enmod cgi
sudo service apache2 restart

...and see if that makes things better. (It did for me.)

JmacDotOrg
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In Debian the configuration in sites-available is not automatically applied. I believe you'll need to do something like 

sudo a2ensite mailmain
sudo systemctl restart apache2

and see if that allows the CGI to be properly interpreted.

Friedrich 'Fred' Clausen
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