[Mailman-Users] help re: web_page_url and virtual hosts

[Richard Barrett]

On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 02:00  pm, 
mailman-users at davefisher.co.uk wrote:

> Please forgive me if I have missed some obvious documentation, but I'm
> having some difficulty getting mailman to co-operate in the use of
> virtual hosts.
>
> I've read Nigel Metherigham's Exim-Mailman howto and added his 
> suggested
> code to my exim.conf file.  List mail is definitely being delivered to
> the correct domains.
>
> Unfortunately, all the message components that contain the web_page_url
> string variable have it evaluating to one domain name (usually the 
> wrong
> one) even though components using host_name evaluate to each list's
> correct domain.
>

This FAQ entry my be of use:

http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.029.htp

> Apache is serving all the list web pages on all the domains it hosts,
> instead of limiting each list to its appropriate domain.
>
> The most immediate thing I need to know, is where I can definitively 
> set
> the default value, and the per list values, for web_page_url.
>
> I am using Debian, which has basic configs in /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py 
> and
> that imports Defaults (I am guessing from
> /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py)
>
> I've changed the values of DEFAULT_URL and DEFAULT_URL_HOST in
> mm_cfg.py, and restarted mailman, but it still spews out the old 
> default
> domain for web_page_url on all lists.
>
> I have read the comments in Defaults.py about virtual domains, but am 
> no
> wiser about what variables I should change or how I should change them
> to get virtual domains to work properly.
>
> These problems seem to lie with mailman per se, and the variables it
> passes, rather than with Apache or Exim.
>
> Dave