[Mailman-Users] Changing ports doesn't seem to work

[Brian Rudy]

Made the changes that Mark directed me to do and everything works the 
way it should.

Thank you Mark,
Much appreciated.
On 10/29/2014 9:05 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> On 10/29/2014 10:32 AM, Brian Rudy wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Due to changing ISP's I was forced to change my web port to something
>> other than 80.  On port 80, everything was working well. I moved all of
>> my web interfaces to port 8000.  I thought I followed the instructions
>> correctly and did:
>>
>> bin/withlist -l -r fix_url <listname>
>
> You don't say, but before running fix_url did you add
>
> DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s:8000/mailman/'
>
> to mm_cfg.py?
>
>
>> It seems to work fine using
>> http://host.example.com:8000/mailman/admin/<listname> but any link I
>> click on doesn't add in the port number (:8000) so by default, it's
>> trying port 80.  Is there any way around that?  If I manually copy the
>> link and paste it in the url of the browser and manually add in the
>> :8000 the link works fine.  The problem then is when I try to submit
>> something... It doesn't take.
>
> If you added the port to DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN as above before running
> fix_url, I can only guess that the issue has something to do with your
> browser getting confused over relative URLs.
>
> However, your comment above about copying/pasting the link and adding
> the :8000 makes me think you didn't add the port to DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN
> as above before running fix_url, although I suppose it could still be a
> browser/relative URL issue.
>
> View the source of the web page and look at the href= URLs. If they are
> of form http://host.example.com/mailman/admin/<listname>... without the
> :8000, then you need to be sure you have
>
> DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s:8000/mailman/'
>
> in mm_cfg.py and run fix_url again.
>
> If they are of form ../admin/<listname>... (i.e.relative) it is your
> browser that's at fault, but this seems unlikely.
>
> If it is the browser not handling relative URLs properly, the only way
> to make Mailman generate absolute URLs is to edit Mailman/Utils.py and
> change the line
>
> def ScriptURL(target, web_page_url=None, absolute=False):
>
> to
>
> def ScriptURL(target, web_page_url=None, absolute=True):
>