[Mailman-Users] Totally lost Newbie needs a bit more help.

[tenant]

Thanks to those who responded to my plea. The suggestion was to do the 
install as root. It worked -- even though the instructions said not to do 
it as root. Go figure!

So I've gotten well down on the list. I have a rudimentry understanding of 
apache configuration, but certainly not expert.

I created the list "test" and received the email telling us to go to:

  http://www.tenant.net/admin/test

OK, so it doesn't work and I get a 404. Looking at some old messages from 
the list, I erase the previous changes to access.conf and add the following 
(not sure about the mailmanlog directory as it doesn't exist):

# stuff for mailman
ScriptAlias /mailman/ /home/mailman/cgi-bin/
#Alias /mailmanlogo/ /home/mailman/logo/
Alias /pipermail/ /home/mailman/archives/public/
<Directory /home/mailman>
allow from all
Options FollowSymLinks
</Directory>

So on a hunch, I edit the URL on my browser to read"

http://www.tenant.net/mailman/admin/test

and sure enough I get the password page for the admin functions. But this 
is not what is reflected on the email I received. So it the apache config 
worng? Or is it something in the mm_cfg.py file? Seems as it's OK as long 
as I use the URL above, but the program things it is something else.

Thanks again!
John Fisher
TenantNet


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