On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 11:32:13AM -0400, Andrew Kuchling wrote:
| I'm (finally!) revisiting the question of archiving for Mailman.
| There are two additional config parameters that seem to be needed.
great!
| First, I need to know into what directory to write the formatted HTML | files, both public and private. The private files shouldn't go into | the actual Web tree, since they'll be accessed via the 'private' CGI | script. Either there should be a parameter in mm_defaults/mm_cfg to | specify the ARCHIVE_HTML_ROOT, or we could always write them into the | Mailman tree somewhere -- say, ${prefix}/pipermail/html or /formatted | or whatever. The second course would then require configuring the Web | server to map your desired public archive URL to the root of the | public tree, and the private archives to the CGI script.
I'm for making it specifiable via a config variable. That way, large sites could put the archives on a separate partition from the mailman installation.
| Second, I need to know what URL to use to access the public archives. | (The private archives should be accessed via the 'private' CGI | script.)
how about http://HOST/mailman/archives/listname ? shouldn't this access both the private and the public archives?
scott