[Mailman-Users] newbie question

[Richard Barrett]

On 25 Mar 2004, at 05:09, Jim Chivas wrote:

>
> I double checked the information you suggested below. I did your
> suggestion and it works ok.
>
> Now new question.
>
> I am following the mailman doc to create my first list ex:
>
> http://my.dom.ain:8080/mailman/create
>                   ****
> Note the port number!
>
>
> The screen comes up and I put in the data requested but when I click on
> create I receive the 'mailman/create' page can't be found plus the URL 
> in
> my browser does not keep the port# 8080 in its path. I am assuming 
> this is
> my trouble.
>
> To correct this I added
>
> DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'pipeline.langara.bc.ca:8080'
>
> to my mm_cfg.py file at the end.
>
> I then stopped and started mailmanctl.
>
> When I try again the url still keeps loosing the port# 8080 from the 
> URL.
>
>
> Referencing the following list off the create page returns similar no
> port# url as follows.
>
>
> http://pipeline.langara.bc.ca/mailman/admin (overview)
>
> http://pipeline.langara.bc.ca/mailman/listinfo (list overview)
>
>
> Can you offer any suggestions on how to keep the port# in the URL's for
> mailman?
>

See under the heading "Non-standard web server ports" in this FAQ entry:

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

>
> Thanks
>
> Jim
>
>
> On 10 Mar 2004, Jon Carnes wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 12:53, Jim Chivas wrote:
>>> On 10 Mar 2004, Jon Carnes wrote:
>>>
>>>> Did you stop and restart Apache?
>>>
>>> yes.
>>>>
>>>> Does Apache give you any errors with regards to your added lines in
>>>> httpd.conf?
>>>
>>> None.
>>>
>>> Is this the correct url ?
>>>
>>> http://my-server-name/mailman/admin/mailman
>>
>> should be fine as long as your servers domain name is "my-server-name"
>> :-)
>>
>>> Does my install directory look correct?
>>>
>>
>> In my installs I don't use the <Directory> directive to define 
>> Apache's
>> access for the local directories. I just have the ScriptAlias point
>> there.
>>
>> Leave the ScriptAlias but comment out this stuff and then restart 
>> Apache
>>  <Directory  "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin">
>>    AllowOverride       None
>>    Options     None
>>    Order       allow,deny
>>    Allow       from    all
>>  </Directory>
>>
>> It may be that if you define the Directory that you must specify
>> "ExecCGI" in the Options statement (and not "None").
>>
>> Good Luck - Jon Carnes
>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
>
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