[Mailman-Developers] Installation of mailman on local machine

[Mark Sapiro]

On 02/27/2014 01:08 PM, Tejas Shah wrote:
> 
> However, starting the mailman server using "mailman start", when i try to
> test using "nose2 -v" , it gives me o/p:


You don't have to start mailman before running tests, but it should be OK.


> Ran 593 tests in 43.713s
> FAILED (failures=11, errors=72)
> 
> I guess most of them are for HTTP Sockets..


Perhaps if you reported the exact failures and errors we could say more.


> I tried opening localhost:8001
> and its giving "405 Method Not Allowed" error on the page


This is normal. The REST server doesn't accept a GET /


> Please suggest appropriate headers to solve this.


See src/mailman/rest/docs/basic.rst. Are the doctests here among the
failures? Also see "mailman info" for the rest server base URL (probably
something like <http://localhost:8001/3.0/>) and credentials.

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