[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#811542: mailman: Update configuration for Apache 2.4

David Magda david.magda at oicr.on.ca
Tue Jan 19 16:37:13 UTC 2016


Package: mailman
Version: 1:2.1.18-2
Severity: important

The current copy of /etc/mailman/apache.conf in the mailmain package
has configuration items that are for Apache 2.2. For example:

	<Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/>
		AllowOverride None
		Options ExecCGI
		AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>

However, Debian now uses the Apache 2.4 and the above does not really work.
Specifically, the two lines:

	Order allow,deny
	Allow from all

should probably be:

	Require all granted

Per:

	http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html#access

At the very least a "apache24.conf" file should be present so that people
are aware of the change. The "apache.conf" file can perhaps be left for 
upgrade purposes perhaps.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages mailman depends on:
ii  apache2 [httpd]        2.4.10-10+deb8u3
ii  cron                   3.0pl1-127+deb8u1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.56
ii  libc6                  2.19-18+deb8u1
ii  logrotate              3.8.7-1+b1
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian13+nmu1
ii  python-dnspython       1.12.0-1
pn  python:any             <none>
ii  ucf                    3.0030

Versions of packages mailman recommends:
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent]  2.11.3-1

-- debconf information excluded



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