[Mailman-Users] Help with a regular expression

[Greg Westin]

Just in case anyone was actually thinking of using that regexp I sent,  
my limited knowledge tells me that this would be a slightly better  
incarnation:
     RewriteRule ^/(mailman[/]{0,1}){0,1}$   /mailman/listinfo [L,R]

Greg

On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 09:46  AM, Greg Westin wrote:

> I think what you want to do to fix this is add a carat ("^") before  
> the first slash:
> RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo
>
> That way, it only catches it if "/mailman" occurs at the beginning of  
> the string.
>
> Personally, I use a little more inclusive regular expression, because  
> I want it to also redirect any requests for the top level  
> (http://lists.example.com) to the listinfo page:
>     RewriteRule ^[/]{0,1}(mailman[/]{0,1}){0,1}$    /mailman/listinfo  
> [L,R]
>
> I claim to be no master of regular expressions, though... because wow  
> that looks ugly.  That notwithstanding, I think my advice on your  
> situation is correct.
>
> Greg
>
> On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 02:09  AM, Paul Kleeberg wrote:
>
>> I know this is a simple question but I don't have the knowledge to  
>> figure it out.
>>
>> I am running RedHat 8.0 and which came with Mailman 2.0.13.  It  
>> suggests adding the following to the httpd.conf file:
>>
>> # Uncomment the following line, replacing www.example.com with your  
>> server's
>> # name, to redirect queries to /mailman to the listinfo page  
>> (recommended).
>> # RedirectMatch /mailman[/]*$ http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo
>>
>> That used to work fine.  I just upgraded to Mailman 2.1.  I created  
>> the list "mailman" as instructed at the end of section 4 of the  
>> INSTALL document but cannot get to the administrative page  
>> http://www.example.com/mailman/admin/mailman or the list overview  
>> page http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo/mailman because  
>> "RedirectMatch" thinks it is http://www.example.com/mailman and just  
>> redirects it the top level listinfo page.
>>
>> I am aware that I have two options:
>>   1. Rename the "mailman" list
>>   2. Remove the "RedirectMatch" statement from the httpd.conf file.
>>
>> Is there a third?  I tried fiddling with the regular expression, but  
>> I just do not know what I am doing.  Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Paul
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