[Mailman-Users] Relative path rather than absolute???

David Southwell david at vizion2000.net
Mon Apr 16 17:50:10 CEST 2007


Difficulty with list creation procedures.

My webserver is intended to host a number of sites each one of which will 
provide, among other things,maillists. The primary site is www.vizion200.net.
Access to www.vizion2000.net/mailman/create responds with the result that the 
mailing list has been created. The source code read by the browser,for the 
page is shown below:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="/usr2/virtualwebs/icons/mm-icon.png">
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<TITLE>Mailing list creation results</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="white">

<table WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0">
  <tr>
    <td BGCOLOR="#99ccff"><center><strong><font size="+1">Mailing list
creation results</font></strong></center></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>You have successfully created the mailing list
    <b>mytest6</b> and notification has been sent to the list owner
    <b>david at vizion2000.net</b>.  You can now:</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>
        <ul>
        <li><a
href="http://www.vizion2000.net/mailman/listinfo/mytest5">Visit the list's
info page</a>
        <li><a href="http://www.vizion2000.net/mailman/admin/mytest5">Visit
the list's admin page</a>
        <li><a href="http://www.vizion2000.net/mailman/create">Create
another list</a>
        </ul>
</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<hr>Return to the <a
href="http://www.vizion2000.net/mailman/listinfo">general list
overview</a><br>Return to the <a
href="http://www.vizion2000.net/mailman/admin">administrative list
overview</a>
<table WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0">
  <tr>
    <td><img src="/usr2/virtualwebs/icons/mailman.jpg" alt="Delivered by
Mailman" border=0><br>version 2.1.9</td>
    <td><img src="/usr2/virtualwebs/icons/PythonPowered.png" alt="Python
Powered" border=0></td>
    <td><img src="/usr2/virtualwebs/icons/powerlogo.gif" alt="Powered by
FreeBSD" border=0></td>
  </tr>
</table>

</BODY>
</HTML>

Each of the above referrer lines for the img_src are shown with the absolute 
path correctly specified in the page source.
-------------------------------------------------------

However the apache server is receiving incorrect path requests from mailman:
_______________________________________________________________________

[Mon Apr 16 08:28:18 2007] [error] [client 192.168.15.1] File does not 
exist: /usr2/virtualwebs/vizion2000.net/usr2, referer:
                                                            ^^
 http://www.vizion2000.net/mailman/create
[Mon Apr 16 08:28:18 2007] [error] [client 192.168.15.1] File does not 
exist: /usr2/virtualwebs/vizion2000.net/usr2, referer: 
http://www.vizion2000.net/mailman/create
[Mon Apr 16 08:28:18 2007] [error] [client 192.168.15.1] File does not 
exist: /usr2/virtualwebs/vizion2000.net/usr2, referer: 
http://www.vizion2000.net/mailman/create
[Mon Apr 16 08:28:54 2007] [error] [client 192.168.15.1] File does not 
exist: /usr2/virtualwebs/vizion2000.net/usr2, referer: 
http://www.vizion2000.net/mailman/create
[Mon Apr 16 08:28:54 2007] [error] [client 192.168.15.1] File does not 
exist: /usr2/virtualwebs/vizion2000.net/usr2, referer: 
http://www.vizion2000.net/mailman/create
[Mon Apr 16 08:28:54 2007] [error] [client 192.168.15.1] File does not 
exist: /usr2/virtualwebs/vizion2000.net/usr2, referer: 
http://www.vizion2000.net/mailman/create

__________________________________________

It looks as though mailman is trying to add whole or part of the absolute path 
to the absolute path!! weird.
_______________________________
When I checked the properties for each of the three icons at the bottom of the 
mail list creation page I found that the sought path is, for example:
http://www.vizion2000.net/usr2/virtualwebs/icons/PythonPowered.png
but should be
/usr2/virtualwebs/icons/PythonPowered.png

The relevant line in mm_cfg.py
IMAGE_LOGOS = '/usr2/virtualwebs/icons/'

I am not certain whether it may/maynot help to know that all web sites are 
located at the absolute paths /usr2/virtualwebs/<my.domain.ain>.

Freebsd 6.1
Postfix
Apache22
Thanks in advance 

David


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