Hi:
I have just successfully installed Mailman 2.0b4 but, from what I can tell, there is no support for the WN Web server (for those unfamiliar, more info. on it can be found at "http://hopf.math.nwu.edu" or "http://www.wnserver.org"). Has anyone done this?
If, as I suspect, no one has tackled this yet, I don't think it would be
very hard. What makes WN different from other Web servers is that it
requires a database (an 'index.cache' file) in each directory enumerating
which files can be served. This poses a problem for the archive
directories where 'index.cache' has to be updated each time a posting is
added to the archive. A quick and dirty way to do this is with a 'wndex
-a' command (i.e. creates an 'index.cache' file which gives permission for
all current files in this directory to be served) executed from a 'cron'
job. Even better, could this be done in Mailman/Archive/HyperArch.py?
The last line of the HyperArch::Write_TOC() method would be:
os.system("wndex -a -d " + self.basedir)
('-d' argument specifies directory to create 'index.cache' file.)
Comments? (Yes, I know I could take the easy way out and change my Web server, but WN support in Mailman would interest others as well.)
Thanks,
-- Roy Bixler The University of Chicago Press rcb@press-gopher.uchicago.edu