I am trying to install mailman-2.0.7 on my raq, I think that I am within strikeing distance but I have one instruction that I DO NOT understand.

the doc for mailman has a section that reads

Configure your web server to give $prefix/cgi-bin permission to run CGI scripts. You probably need to be root to do this. The line you should add might look something like one of the following (with the real absolute directory substituted for $prefix, of course), depending on your web server:

ScriptAlias /mailman/ $prefix/cgi-bin/
Exec /mailman/* $prefix/cgi-bin/*

I know where that the ScriptAlias line goes in the srm.conf file. But I am absolutely stumped about the Exec command and line. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks
JMb <><

You only need one of the two lines.

The ScriptAlias line will work if you are using Apache web server software, the EXEC line is for the CERN httpd server software, otherwise known as W3C httpd, both of which are deprecated
in favor of JigSaw. More info can be found at http://www.w3.org/Daemon/




I am trying to install mailman-2.0.7 on my raq, I think that I am within strikeing distance but I have one instruction that I DO NOT understand.

the doc for mailman has a section that reads

Configure your web server to give $prefix/cgi-bin permission to run CGI scripts. You probably need to be root to do this. The line you should add might look something like one of the following (with the real absolute directory substituted for $prefix, of course), depending on your web server:

ScriptAlias /mailman/ $prefix/cgi-bin/
Exec /mailman/* $prefix/cgi-bin/*

I know where that the ScriptAlias line goes in the srm.conf file. But I am absolutely stumped about the Exec command and line. Does anyone have any ideas?