[Mailman-Users] Can't create list

[Mark Sapiro]

Mike Brown wrote:

>I am getting extremely frustrated.
>
>Keep in mind that the server is on a DSL, static IP, on the LAN side of the DSL
>with an IP of 192.168.1.1.  The vidiot.com obviously points to the real outside
>address.
>
>If I traceroute vidiot.com, it never goes the the DSlam gateway and back.
>
>Until trying to do things with mailman, having to get at my webpages on the
>server via http://localhost/... has not been a problem.
>
>Can't get there via http:/vidiot.com/ as I get the following error:
>
>	404 Not Found
>	The requested URL '/mailman/create' was not found on this server.


http://vidiot.com/mailman/create works for me. All the above would seem
like network/DNS/router issues. Perhaps from inside your LAN,
http:/vidiot.com/ goes to the wrong box.

	
>Can not for the life of me figure out why the DocumentRoot is not getting
>prepended to the request.


Well, it is a ScriptAlias, so it has nothing to do with the document
root, but as I say, it works for me. I think it would work for you too
if it went to the correct box.


>If I knew how it was coming at the server, I might
>be able to place something in the config file, but what I've tried hasn't
>worked.


The browser sends an http GET for /mailman/create to host vidiot.com.


>If I come at the create with localhost, or 192.168.1.1, I get the following
>error:
>
>	Error: Unknown virtual host: localhost
>	Error: Unknown virtual host: 192.168.1.1
>
>I'm about ready to make a boat anchor out of this thing.


Because those host names are not in the VIRTUAL_HOSTS dictionary. You
could put something like

add_virtualhost('192.168.1.1', '192.168.1.1')

in mm_cfg.py and then create a list in the '192.168.1.1' domain, but
don't do that because the domain '192.168.1.1' will appear everywhere
in that list's links and addresses and it won't work from outside your
LAN.

Fix whatever network issue is preventing you from going to
http://vidiot.com/mailman/create (on the correct box) from inside your
LAN.

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