It seems that I find the answer to the first part of my question. I should include the line: DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mail_man/' in mm_cfg.py as well. Please tell me if I need some thing else.

I still need to know how to convert existing lists from one version to other (2.0.8 to 2.1.2) as well as from one system to other. How do I change the host system in each list's configuration?

Thanks again.

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From marisa Tue Jun 10 12:23:54 2003 Subject: alternate root for mailman To: mailman-developers@python.org Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:23:54 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] Content-Length: 2948 Lines: 98

I am updating mailman to a new version but until I can test all the changes I like to run two versions of the program. I am working in a SuSE Linux 8.0 system.

For the old versions I used the default settings and defined:

ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/ Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/

For the new version (2.1.2) I am using user "mail_man" and:

1. a "configure" command such as:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mail_man --with-var-prefix=/var/mail_man --with-username=mail_man --with-groupname=mail_man --with-mail-gid=65533 --with-cgi-gid=65534

2. a definition of where the Papermail directory will be in ../Mailman/mm_cfg.py (I set this before "configure".)

PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = 'http://%(hostname)s/piper_mail/%(listname)s'

and

3. an addition to the Apache httpd configuration for the new mail_man:

ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/
Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/

<Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/> Options +FollowSymLinks </Directory>

ScriptAlias /mail_man/ /usr/local/mail_man/cgi-bin/ Alias /piper_mail/ /var/mail_man/archives/public/

<Directory /var/mail_man/archives/> Options +FollowSymLinks </Directory>

Things work "up to a certain point"... I can create new lists and the lists are stored in my new paper_mail root OK. I also can locate the lists management entry with the web page entry: http://stat.umn.edu/mail_man/admin.

The problem is that when I want to access any one of the new lists that I created to be managed by the new version of the program I can not access the information on those lists.

If I look at the information on the configuration of the list by using the unix "strings" command on the binary I see that that list points to a web page in the old root:

...

strings /var/mail_man/lists/test212b/config.pck . . web_page_urlqNU$http://muskrat.stat.umn.edu/mailman/qOU

. .

I am so confuse that it is hard to post a question! But some how I wander if

1. I am missing some information for "configure"

or

2. Am I right to assume the the problem may be on the "admin" binary that has enough information about the new root (paper_mail) to place the list there but it is not capable of placing that information in the configuration of the list?

And finally, two different question that I will need to deal with as well are:

How can I eliminate references to "muskrat.stat.umn.edu" and use only "stat.umn.edu"? Muskrat is an alias for our system but we may like to change it to another piece of hardware sometime. I am not
telling the name "muskrat" to the configuration files but it seems to
pick it somewhere.

How do I convert the old lists two the new version of mailman?

Thanks for your help!

-- Marisa Riviere U of M - Statistics marisa@stat.umn.edu 612-624-5859

"Aun es tarde, si, pero ya vamos" - N. R.