[Mailman-Users] Mailman-2.1.1 + Virtual Hosting HOWTO - ARCHIVES.

[ODHIAMBO Washington]

Hello ALL,

Since this question comes up every now and then, here is my contribution.
Kindly add what you believe is needed, for the archives.


Someone more experienced can comment/edit/update this HOWTO. I just went through
the steps today and while it works for me, I am not guaranteeing it will work
for everyone.

I am running Mailman-2.1.1 on FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE (not important). I have Exim-4.20
and Apache-1.3.27.

Here is how I did it:

The installation of Apache to handle virtual hosts and the installation of Exim-4.x
to handle the same is beyond the scope of this mini-HOWTO.


#This is how to add virtual hosting to mailman.
# 20030620

STEP 1. Edit the dns zone file for the domain name to have a suitable host for
        the virtual domain. The MX for this host should be mail.wananchi.com and
        longonot.wananchi.com, e.g.


	lists		IN	A	1.2.3.4
			IN	MX	10	mx1.domain.tld.
			IN	MX	20	mx2.domain.tld.

        Increment the serial and then reload the zone. 1.2.3.4 here hosts Apache as
        well as the MTA. I did this because I have some virtual domains who host their
        own MX servers.... I therefore could override the mail handling for the list.

STEP 2:

      Edit your MTAs relay maps add the FQDN you added above, e.g.
      lists.domain.name.

STEP 3:
 
      Edit your Apache config to add a virtual host for the FQDN from (2) above. In my
      case I use an INCLUDE directive to incorporate a config file for VHosts alone.
      My sample VHost config is:

      <VirtualHost *:80>
       ServerName lists.domain.tld
       ServerAdmin admin at domain.tld
       DocumentRoot /usr/local/mailman/lists/list-name
       ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/
       Alias /pipermail/ /usr/local/mailman/archives/public/
      </VirtualHost>

With that I could access http://lists.domain.tld/mailman/admin/

I could not access http://lists.domain.tld/ - access was denied. Someone should
comment on the correct way for this as I am sure I missed a point.



STEP 4. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING STEPS.
        (a) Open /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.pf for editing and append
            the FQDN from (2) above to the following entry. Please follow the
            format STRICTLY.

	VIRTUAL_HOSTS        = {'lists.domain.tld':'lists.domain.tld',
                                'lists.domani2.org':'lists.domain2.org',
                                'lists.domain3.net':'lists.domain3.net',
                                'FQDN':'FQDN'}

        (b) Add an extra entry for the FQDN to the entries below

add_virtualhost('lists.domain.tld','lists.domain.tld')
add_virtualhost('lists.domain2..org','lists.domain2.org')
add_virtualhost('lists.domain3.net','lists.domain3.net')
add_virtualhost('FQDN','FQDN')

NB: Here again I was not quite sure I needed both steps (a) and (b), but hey
    I said it works for me. Please modify this if you know what is better.



STEP 5: Run the following commands.

(a) /usr/local/mailman/bin/newlist list-name at FQDN
    Answer the questions prompted carefully. Take note of the answers you give.
    They will be needed later. You are warned.

(b) /usr/local/mailman/bin/withlist -l -r fix_url list-name -u FQDN -v


NB: Change the paths to reflect yours.


That is how I did it.

Comments on any suitable changes I need to make are welcome.



        cheers
       - wash 
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