[Mailman-Users] Default URL Host Issue

[Bill Honneus (honneus)]

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Sapiro [mailto:mark at msapiro.net] 
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 10:39 PM
To: Bill Honneus (honneus); mailman-users at python.org
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Default URL Host Issue

Bill Honneus wrote:
> 
>I am having two problems with my Mailman web server.
> 
>First, I seem to be having a problem with setting my DEFAULT_URL_HOST.
>When I first configured my mm_cfg.py, I had both my DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST 
>and my DEFAULT_URL_HOST set to my.domain.com.  But I needed to change 
>the URL to my-hostname.domain.com because I had a conflict with the 
>my.domain.com redirecting me to another web server in our topology.  So

>I made the change to my mm_cfg.py file as appears below and I re-ran 
>the controller "bin/mailmanctl restart".  However, when I navigate to 
>the http://my-hostname.domain.com/mailman/admin, I get a page not
found.


That has to be addressed in the web server configuration by putting the
mailman ScriptAlias (assuming apache) in a place where it applies
globally or to the my-hostname.domain.com domain.

[BillH] Yes, I have the following ScriptAliases defined in my
httpd.conf:

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/"
ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/usr/local/mailman/cgi-bin/"

What else do I need?
 
>The second problem is if I replace the url manually in the browser with

>the host IP, so I have http://111.111.111.111/mailman/admin, then I can

>get the admin page to come up, but then some of the links in the child 
>pages end up navigating to http://my.domain.com/mailman/..../, instead 
>of the host IP URL.


The links will point to the host name that's configured in the hidden
web_page_url attribute that was configured for the list when you created
it.


>The relevant section in my mm_cfg.py file is below:
> 
>##################################################
># Put YOUR site-specific settings below this line.
> 
>IMAGE_LOGOS = '/images/'
>MTA='Postfix'
>POSTFIX_ALIAS_CMD = '/usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/sbin/mailman.aliases'
>POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = []
>DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = my.domain.com'


You're missing the initial quote above. I assume that's a typo, or
nothing would work.

[BillH]  yes, that's a typo. Sorry for that!  In my mm_cfg.py file, it
is correct.

>DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'my-hostname.domain.com'
>VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear()
>add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)


You need to fix your web server config so 'my-hostname.domain.com'
works.

Then you need to run

  bin/withlist -r fix_url -a

which will set the host_name and web_page_url attributes of each list to
my.domain.com and http://my-hostname.domain.com/mailman/
respectively.

Then you probably want to add

VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW = Off

(or No) to mm_cfg.py so that all your new lists will be created in the
default domains.

[BillH] Thanks.  I'll try this when I get that other piece of
information from you regarding the ScriptAlias (earlier in this reply
thread).

Thanks,

Bill