[Mailman-Users] !st time install help

[Robert Moskowitz]

I am making some progress.  I am still getting the error below running 
/usr/lib/mailman/bin/newlist mailman

But I now have mailman.conf linked into my /etc/http/conf.d right so 
that if I provide the URL  http://mailman.foo.com/mailman, I get taken 
to http://mailman.foo.com/mailman/listinfo with the error:

We're sorry, we hit a bug!



On 11/25/2010 03:39 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I am new to running Mailman, though a long time user and have been 
> admin for a list or two over the years.
>
> The system is Fedora 12, mailman ver 2.1.12-9, with the Amahi Home 
> Server (amahi.org) added.
>
> So I am trying to setup mailman as a Amahi webapp.  The URL 
> mailman.foo.com right now comes up to the Apache test page, all ready 
> for my to put my index.html into the .../mailman directory.
>
> host mailman.foo.com
>
> returns the IPv4 IP for my server, so looks like I am all ready to go.
>
> I am following the recipe from:  
> http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialMailman.html
>
> I run:
>
> /usr/lib/mailman/bin/mmsitepass <newpassword>
>
> I edit
>
> /usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py
>
> to setup my default URL:
>
> DEFAULT_URL_HOST   =  mailman.foo.com
> DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = foo.com
>
> I then run:
>
> /usr/lib/mailman/bin/newlist mailman
>
> And I get errors:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/newlist", line 99, in <module>
>     from Mailman import mm_cfg
>   File "/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py", line 86, in <module>
>    DEFAULT_URL_HOST   =  mailman.foo.com
> NameError: name 'mailman' is not defined
>
> Now I have not setup the URL mailman.foo.com/mailman, is that what it 
> is complaining about (and I think I have to edit the default.py to 
> drop the directory from the URL?)?
>
> Or is there suppose to be quotes around the URL (DEFAULT_URL_HOST   =  
> 'mailman.foo.com').
>
> Or is it something else?
>
> Thanks for any help.  We have a postfix/mySQL/CourierMail/SquirelMail 
> app just about ready for Amahi, and adding Mailman would address a 
> number of my needs.
>
>