[Mailman-Users] URLs in my top listinfo page are incorrect..?

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Regarding [Mailman-Users] URLs in my top listinfo page are incorrect..?; I wrote:

Anyone?  Bueller?  Bueller? :)

If no one has any better ideas I guess I'll start adding prints to the
code to try to figure it out--since I know little about Python this
could be quite an adventure...

Any pointers to where to start, what to look at, how to do more
effective debugging--or even an answer! :)--would be greatly
appreciated.

> From: "Paul D. Smith" <pausmith at nortelnetworks.com>
> To: mailman-users at python.org
> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 02:18:13 -0500
>
> OK, I installed Mailman 2.0.1 on a Debian GNU/Linux box (I built it
> myself, though, I didn't use a Debian package).
>
> I configured my Apache 1.3.17 server to have a virtual host
> list.my.domain.com, like this:
>
>   <VirtualHost 100.10.10.100>
>     Servername lists.my.domain.com
>     DocumentRoot "/home/mailman/2.0.1"
>     ServerAdmin psmith at lists.my.domain.com
>     CustomLog /home/apache/var/logs/lists.my.domain.com.combined_log combined
>     ScriptAlias /mailman/ /home/mailman/2.0.1/cgi-bin/
>     AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
>     Alias /pipermail/ /home/mailman/archives/public/
>
>     <Directory "/home/mailman/archives/public">
>        AllowOverride None
>        Options FollowSymLinks
>        Order allow,deny
>        Allow from all
>     </Directory>
>
>     <Directory "/home/mailman/2.0.1/cgi-bin">
>        AllowOverride None
>        Options None
>        Order allow,deny
>        Allow from all
>     </Directory>
>
>   </VirtualHost>
>
> Now, I can get to the homepage of my lists, which gives a URL of
> <http://lists.my.domain.com/mailman/listinfo/somelist>, which seems
> right.
>
> I can also get to the pipermail archives; that all works fine.
>
> However, all the links on the listinfo page to places like the roster,
> the admin interface, and even the link on the bottom which is supposed
> to point back to the listinfo page are broken.
>
> Instead of pointing to <http://lists.my.domain.com/mailman/roster/somelist>,
> for example, the page points to <http://lists.my.domain.com/roster/somelist>
> (note the missing "mailman/" in the path).
>
> Needless to say, none of these links work.
>
> When I view the source for the page the reason is obvious: there's one
> too many "../"'s in the relative paths of the URLs.  For example, the
> form button to the roster page is
>
>   <FORM Method=POST ACTION="../../roster/somelist">
>
> which is clearly wrong, both based on what it does and comparing it to
> the source for other pages (such as the listinfo for this list :).  It
> should just be:
>
>   <FORM Method=POST ACTION="../roster/somelist">
>
> Likewise, the link to the listinfo page is similarly wrong:
>
>   <a href="../../listinfo/somelist">Somelist</a>
>
> Help!  What could be causing this?  Where should I look?
>
> I tried to follow the Python code but the calculation of this path,
> starting in Mailman/Cgi/listinfo.py where FormatListListinfo() invokes
> FormatFormStart() gets pretty deep, then I got down to
> Mailman/Utils.py:ScriptURL() when I got pretty confused :-/.
>
> Thanks for any pointers or tips...

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