[Mailman-Users] Using Mailman over SSH-Tunnel

[Dark Servant]

On 11/28/06, Zbigniew Szalbot <zbyszek at szalbot.homedns.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Dark Servant wrote:
>
> > The mailinglists works, but the admininterface gives me a headache.
> >
> > The Webserver is not accessible from the outsite, so I have to use a
> > SSH-Tunnel like
> > ssh -L 8080:localhost:80 me at foo.com
> >
> > Going to, for example,
> > http://localhost:8080/mailman/private/mailman/listinfo/knownlist, shows
> me
> > the listinformation for a known list - so far so good.
> > But all links on this page are absolut. The don't use localhost:8080 as
> > base, they all link to http://lists.foo.com/...
> >
> > This is a big problem, as lists.foo.com is not accessible - the frontend
> is
> > not usable for me.
> >
> > Can the scripts be configured, not to use this absolute URLs?
>
> You could probably use fix_url.py to change it. But anyway, wouldn't it be
> better for you to set up a VPN connection to that machine? I do that on a
> router level and then once I am in, I can use administrative interface on
> the LAN.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Zbigniew Szalbot



Hm.. what exactly does the fix_url script do? Changing the URLs on the
interface as I want?
Am I right that setting the DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN to something like "
http://localhost:8080/mailman" will work for me, as long people always
forward port 8080?

Yes, router level would be nicer, but it should work from any computer
and any network - as long as you have ssh access.

David