[Mailman-Users] How are the URLs in the webinterface built?

[Richard Barrett]

At 11:49 25/02/2003, Goeran Zaengerlein wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>I installed Mailman 2.1.1 on my Suse 8.1 Linux box (together with Apache
>and Postfix).
>
>The installation went smooth, except that the webinterface does not work
>as expected: when I go to the administration of a list (in my case:
>lists.mydomain.info/admin.cgi/listname) the URLs on the page are contain
>the hostname of my linuxbox instead of the the domainname I put in the
>respective variables in mm_cfg.py. Here is an excerpt from mz mm_cfg.py:
>
>--- snip ---
>DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'mydomain.info'
>DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'lists.mydomain.info'
>DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/'
>
># For backwards compatibility.  Note: DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN must end in a
>slash!
>DEFAULT_HOST_NAME = DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST
>DEFAULT_URL       = DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN % DEFAULT_URL_HOST
>
>add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)
>--- snap ---
>
>lists.mydomain.info is an Apache virtual host and points to
>"/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin".
>
>Here the excerpt from my httpd.conf:
>
>--- snip ---
><VirtualHost 123.123.123.123>
>ServerName lists.mydomain.info
>DocumentRoot /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin
>Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks
>Alias /icons/ /usr/local/mailman/icons/
>Alias /pipermail/ /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/
></VirtualHost>
>--- snap ---
>
>The hostname of my system is "1234567890.pureserver.info".

Tying running $prefix/bin/fix_url.py - the instructions on how to use it 
are near the top of the file fix_url.py .

Why the problem? Did you create the lists before making the changes to 
mm_cfg.py? That often causes the problem.

>Can anyone tell me why the URLs in the administration pages use that
>hostname instead of the DEFAULT_URL_HOST i specified? The problem is,
>like this the webinterface does not work for me.
>
>Thanks a lot for your help,
>regards,
>Goeran