Mailman installation

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I have installed Mailman according to these instructions with some exceptions (which I will elucidate): https://www.howtoforge.com/running-mailman-on-nginx-lemp-on-debian-squeeze-ubuntu-11.04-11.10

I am using MIAB dns and created a user alias user@lists.ecovillage.cc the directory for web files for the vhost lists.ecovillage.cc then is /home/user-data/www/default

I have created the default mailman list, my DNS seems to be working fine. I cannot bring up the mailman admin web page at https://lists.ecovillage.cc/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailman (404 error). The nginx error log shows:

2019/05/25 06:17:36 [warn] 3953#3953: server name “/var/www/lists.ecovillage.cc/web” has suspicious symbols in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/lists.ecovillage.cc.vhost:4
2019/05/25 06:17:36 [warn] 3953#3953: conflicting server name “lists.ecovillage.cc” on 0.0.0.0:80, ignored
2019/05/25 06:17:36 [notice] 3953#3953: signal process started
2019/05/25 06:17:41 [error] 3971#3971: *751 “/home/user-data/www/default/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/index.html” is not found (2: No such file or directory), client: 157.131.93.250, server: lists.ecovillage.cc, request: “GET /cgi-bin/mailman/admin/ HTTP/2.0”, host: “lists.ecovillage.cc”
2019/05/25 06:18:22 [error] 3971#3971: *751 open() “/home/user-data/www/default/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailman” failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 157.131.93.250, server: lists.ecovillage.cc, request: “GET /cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailman HTTP/2.0”, host: “lists.ecovillage.cc”

I believe I need to create a soft link from /home/user-data/www/default to the mailman executables but am fuzzy as to what it should be (I’m an apache guy, new to nginx). Thank you in advance!

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Personally, I would have installed mailman elsewhere … MiaB servers are meant to be Miab Servers. I don’t like to make unsupported modifications.

If, however, I were to install mailman on the same server I certainly think that I would have changed the default document root.

Will you share the contents of the Server Block (vHost) file for lists.ecovillage.cc please? I am not great with them, but it seems pretty obvious that something has gone tilt there. Someone better than me will come along and they will need to see it anyways.

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server {
listen 80;
server_name lists.ecovillage.cc
root /var/www/lists.ecovillage.cc/web;
if ($http_host != “lists.ecovillage.cc”) {
rewrite ^ http://lists.ecovillage.cc$request_uri permanent;
}
index index.php index.html;
location = /favicon.ico {
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
location = /robots.txt {
allow all;
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
# Deny all attempts to access hidden files such as .htaccess, .htpasswd, .DS_Store (Mac).
location ~ /. {
deny all;
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
}
location ~* .(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|css|js|ico)$ {
expires max;
log_not_found off;
}
location /cgi-bin/mailman {
root /usr/lib/;
fastcgi_split_path_info (^/cgi-bin/mailman/[^/])(.)$;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
}
location /images/mailman {
alias /usr/share/images/mailman;
}
location /pipermail {
alias /var/lib/mailman/archives/public;
autoindex on;
}
}