Greetings. I’m getting 404 errors after installing the Mailman mailing
list manager on a server running nginx and thttpd, and could use some
help in understanding why.
This is on “Mailserver”, an excellent OpenBSD-based mail appliance from
Allard Consulting that uses nginx. I’ve pasted the current nginx and
thttpd configs below; the configs are based on Manlio P.'s howto
here:
http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/Mailman+and+nginx
In my setup, the hostname is mail.suctest.com. I’ve created a separate
virtual host in nginx called ‘lists.suctest.com’ for the Mailman stuff.
The logs say requests to Mailman URLs such as this one:
http://lists.suctest.com/mailman/listinfo
produce 404 errors in both nginx and thttpd, although it’s the latter
server that returns the error page. The Mailman stuff is in
/usr/local/mailman and is group readable by mailman.
Thanks in advance for clues on answering these two questions:
-
How to point nginx and thttp at the correct locations so that I’m not
getting 404s? -
If possible, how to run Mailman under the canonical hostname of
‘mail.suctest.com’ instead of the separate name of ‘lists.suctest.com’?
Thanks again
dn
nginx.conf:
user _nginx;
worker_processes 2;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
error_log /var/log/httpd.err error;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
access_log /var/log/httpd.log combined;
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
server_name_in_redirect off;
client_max_body_size 30M;
client_body_buffer_size 512k;
gzip on;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_comp_level 9;
gzip_min_length 0;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_disable “MSIE [1-6].”;
gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json
application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss
text/javascript application/javascript;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
ssl_protocols SSLv3 TLSv1;
ssl_ciphers HIGH:!ADH:!MD5;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:1m;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/server.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/private/server.key;
upstream admin_mongrels {
server 127.0.0.1:4213;
}
upstream account_mongrels {
server 127.0.0.1:4214;
}
server {
listen 4200;
ssl on;
root /var/www/admin/public;
location ~* \.(ico|css|js|gif|jp?g|png) {
access_log off;
expires 7d;
break;
}
location / {
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header Host $host:4200;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X_Forwarded_Proto $scheme;
if (!-f $request_filename.html) {
proxy_pass http://admin_mongrels;
}
}
}
server {
listen 80;
location / {
rewrite /(.*) https://$host/$1 redirect;
}
}
server {
listen 443;
ssl on;
root /var/www/user;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
location ~ .php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param HTTPS on;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
$document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
location ^~ /account/stylesheets {
alias /var/www/user/account/public/stylesheets;
}
location ^~ /account/javascripts {
alias /var/www/user/account/public/javascripts;
}
location ^~ /account/images {
alias /var/www/user/account/public/images;
}
location ~* \.(ico|css|js|gif|jp?g|png) {
access_log off;
expires 7d;
break;
}
location /account {
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Port $proxy_port;
if (!-f $request_filename.html) {
proxy_pass http://account_mongrels;
}
}
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name lists.suctest.com;
root /var/log/mailman;
access_log /var/log/lists.suctest.com.access.log;
# Show in the main page the list info
rewrite ^/$ /mailman/listinfo last;
location /mailman/ {
# Use thttpd for CGI
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000/mailman/;
#proxy_set_header Host lists.suctest.com;
#proxy_intercept_errors on;
}
location /images/mailman/ {
alias /var/lib/mailman/icons/;
}
location /pipermail/ {
alias /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/;
}
#error_page 404 /404.html;
# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
#
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /var/nginx/html;
}
}
}
thttpd.conf:
root@mail:log# cat /etc/thttpd/thttpd.conf
port=8000
Make sure to disable chroot
nochroot
user=mailman
host=127.0.0.1
Serve all the CGI on the system
dir=/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin
cgipat=/**