Top Document: MailMan WWW email interface v2.0 FAQ Previous Document: 5.3) What is the basic installation procedure? Next Document: 5.5) What is the installation procedure for an NT See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge This item provides a more detailed explanation of the above procedure for Unix systems. Before you install MailMan, make sure that you have Perl 5 installed. On most Unix systems, especially web hosting systems, Perl will already be installed. If Perl is not installed, or if Perl version 5 is not installed, consult your system administrator. 1. Copy the distribution to the location that you want to unpack it in. “/public_html/mailman/” in the above example. 2. Unpack the distribution with tar. On most systems you can type “tar –zxvf <distribution>.tgz” and your system will expand the file. You should now have a collection of “i_*.gif” files, “t_*.htm” files, “mailman.cgi”, “cgi- lib.pl”, and some documentation (this document, in particular). On systems where that doesn’t work, try “gnutar –zxvf <distribution>.tgz”. If that doesn’t work, you will have to manually unzip the file with “gunzip” and then untar the file with “tar –xvf <distribution>.tar”. If all else fails, fetch the NT distribution and unzip it. 3. Make sure that your copy of “mailman.cgi” is executable by issuing the command “chmod 755 mailman.cgi” Your copy of “cgi-lib.pl” must also be executable. “chmod 755 cgi- lib.pl”. Also, just to be sure, make sure that your “t_*.htm” and “i_*.gif” files are marked so that the web server process can read them. Sometimes you can read your own files, but you inadvertently have your files set so that your web server can’t access them. These are the same rules that you should be following when you publish ordinary web content. “chmod 644 i_*.gif t_*.htm” should do the trick. 4. Make sure that the first line of the “mailman.cgi” file refers to the correct location of your Perl interpreter. Be warned that it probably does not. You can find out where your Perl interpreter is located on most Unix systems by typing “where perl” on the command line. Some system administrators keep Perl 4 and Perl 5 both installed at the same time, with “perl” referring to Perl 4 and “Perl” or “perl5” referring to Perl 5. If your system operates this way, make sure that you are referring to the correct location of Perl 5. MailMan will not operate with Perl 4. Check your installation by loading “mailman.cgi” in your web browser through your web server. In the above example, the URL to access MailMan would likely be <URL:http://yourserver/mailman/mailman.cgi>. User Contributions:Top Document: MailMan WWW email interface v2.0 FAQ Previous Document: 5.3) What is the basic installation procedure? Next Document: 5.5) What is the installation procedure for an NT Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: rap@endymion.com (Ryan Alyn Porter)
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