[Mailman-Users] Password problems with web interface

[Nigel Allen]

Solved

Mea Culpa

<blush>
Had a bad DNS alias pointing to the old installation.
</blush>

N.


On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 12:45, Nigel Allen wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> Fedora Core 3
> mailman-2.1.5-26
> python-2.3.4-11
> httpd-2.0.52-3
> 
> 
> After success on a RH9 test box last week, we decided to roll out the
> production server. Went through the initial setup fine - a little too
> smoothly perhaps :)
> 
> Set up the site password
> Created the first mailing list "mailman"
> Got the notification email.
> 
> When I try to login in to the admin address at 
> http://www.tld.com/mailman/admin/mailman I get the normal screen but
> after the password is input I get the red "Authorization Failed". Have
> tried to reset the password and have stopped and started the services
> (httpd and mailman) but to no avail.
> 
> In what looks like a related incident, I sent a subscribe request to the
> list I previously created, got back the confirmation request and clicked
> on the URL - then got a red "Bad Confirmation String", yet when I used
> the same string in an email confirmation it worked beautifully and
> subscribed me.
> 
> Okay, the problem is (obviously) related to apache, but where to start
> looking?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Nigel.
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