[Mailman-Users] Public lists not advertised?

[Akop Pogosian]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, James Watson wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:10:40AM -0700, eric-mailman at pretorious.net wrote:
> > Lists set as "public" (i.e., archive_private = 0) aren't appearing in the
> > listinfo page (though they do appear in the admin page). Is there a cure
> > for this?
>
> This may be a dumb question, but you say the list is public because
> archive_private=0.  I assume archive_private refers to the lists archives,
> not the advertisement of the list itself.  Check the first option on the
> privacy page, and make sure the list is set to be advertised.
>
> Also, did you ever try putting VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW=0 in mm_cfg.py?
>
> IIRC, setting this to 1 means "only advertise lists whose url matches the
> current browser's url", and setting it to 0 means "advertise all public
> lists, regardless of the url".
>
> The default value is 1, which bit me because it does a case-sensitive
> comparison of the list url and the browser url.  The end user would only
> see the advertised lists if they happened to type in the url in the same
> case as the configured list url.


Hmm, I added VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW=0 to our mm_cfg.py and it seems to
have fixed the problem. I tried playing with the case of the URLs I
type in the browser and such and I still could not get the public
lists to be listed on the web page without VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW=0.
This is Mailman 2.0.6 by the way. I think we didn't have this problem
in 2.0.1. Since I don't care much about virtual host support, this
should be a good enough fix. Thanks to all for help.


-akop