[Mailman-Users] troubles with multiple installations on the samemachine

[Mark Sapiro]

Davide Galletti wrote:
>
>I am having troubles installing more than one instance on the same LINUX 
>FEDORA CORE 2 box.
>The need arises from having to manage lists for more than one domain 
>(e.g. abitipuliti.org liste.cnms.it  swazitalia.org ...)
>I understand that installing multiple instances is the best choiche ... 
>am I right?
>(FAQ: "Multiple installations on the same machine can be used to avoid 
>the list naming restrictions"
>http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.047.htp
>I accurately ( I hope ) followed the instructions on:
>    http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-install/index.html


Multiple instances may be the best choice if you want to be able to
have the same list name on more than one host. It you can live with
the restriction that all list names must be unique regardless of host,
then Mailman virtual hosts may be a better solution.


>The 1st instance for abitipuliti.org works just fine
>On the 2nd and 3rd for liste.cnms.it and swazitalia.org I get some
>PROBLEMS:
>
>When I fill in the form on
> - http://liste.cnms.it/mailman/create    (2nd)
>and on
> - http://swazitalia.org/mailman/create (3rd)
>I get
>
>
>      *Error: /Unknown virtual host: liste.cnms.it/*
>
>*Error: /Unknown virtual host: swazitalia.org/*
>On both forms it will accept as "List creator's (authentication) 
>password"  the password of the 1st instance!!


This is probably because all hosts are using the instance you intend to
be for abitipuliti.org, and none are using the others.


>Also some URLs point erroneusly from 2nd or 3nd web interface to 1st domain.


A consequence of the above.


>If I create the list from the command line I get the  notification of 
>the new list but  when  click to the URL
>http://swazitalia.org/mailman/admin/test
>I get:  No such list /test/


This is probably because you created the list in the
/data/mailmanswazitalia instance, but the web interface is looking
only at the /var/mailman instance.

See remarks following:


>CONFIGURATION:
> >>>>>>>>>1st instance for abitipuliti.org 2.1.4
> $prefix = /var/mailman
>
> Apache httpd.conf
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>  ServerName abitipuliti.org
>  ProxyVia on
>  ScriptAlias /mailman/* /var/mailman/cgi-bin/*
>  Alias /pipermail/ /var/mailman/archives/public/
> </VirtualHost>
>
> >>>>>>>>>2nd instance for liste.cnms.it 2.1.6
> $prefix = /data/mailman
>
> ./configure --prefix=/data/mailman --with-cgi-gid=apache 
>--with-mailhost=liste.cnms.it --with-urlhost=liste.cnms.it
>
> Apache httpd.conf
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>  ServerName liste.cnms.it
>  ProxyVia on
>  ScriptAlias /mailman/* /data/mailman/cgi-bin/*
>  Alias /pipermail/ /data/mailman/archives/public/
> </VirtualHost>
>
>
> >>>>>>>>>3rd instance for swazitalia.org 2.1.7
> $prefix = /data/mailmanswazitalia
>
> ./configure --prefix=/data/mailmanswazitalia --with-cgi-gid=apache 
>--with-mailhost=swazitalia.org --with-urlhost=swazitalia.org
>
> Apache httpd.conf
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>  DocumentRoot /data/www/swazitalia
>  ServerName swazitalia.org
>  ProxyVia on
>  ScriptAlias /mailman/* /data/mailmanswazitalia/cgi-bin/*
>  Alias /pipermail/ /data/mailmanswazitalia/archives/public/
> </VirtualHost>
>
>
>
>Any hint?


Since your virtual hosts seem to use the same IP address (at least the
ones I could look up), you need NameVirtualHost directives. See
<http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/vhosts/name-based.html> or
<http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/name-based.html> as
appropriate.

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