Can't Approve/Reject/Discard from Admin Web Interface

Hi... I have a quick question.
I just started playing with 2.1 yesterday (snagged 2.1b4+ from cvs) and have been searching the mailing lists all morning. What I can't seem to figure out is... should the approve/reject/discard interface on the admin screen be working (in this beta)? I click one of the radio buttons followed by "submit all data" but it just reloads the same page. Logging out and back in shows no change in the db state. None of my files in the mailman/logs directory have been updated, nor my /var/log/messages file. Is this not implemented yet or did I just do something brain-dead during the installation?
I should mention that I can successfully send mail to lists, get notifications for moderator approval, and passed the bin/check_perms script. So I'm a little stuck. Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Rick Ennis

On 30 October 2002, Rick Ennis said:
Hi... I have a quick question.
Sorry, I don't have any quick answers -- just more questions.
Which web browser, and on which OS? Which web server, and on which OS? What does your web server log say? Anything weird like an HTTP proxy server in the way? Have you tried running a packet tracer (I like ethereal myself) to the traffic between web browser and server to make sure it looks sane?
None of my files in the mailman/logs directory have been updated, nor my /var/log/messages file.
AFAIK Mailman does not use syslog, so /var/log/* should be irrelevant.
Do look in ~mailman/data though -- that's where it stores pending messages. When you approve/reject/discard a message, a file should disappear from that directory (I think).
Greg
-- Greg Ward <gward@python.net> http://www.gerg.ca/ Question authority!

Thanks for the response Greg. Actually I just figured it out. But it looks like I may be petitioning for a feature request or detail fix...
I was looking at the html source for one of the regular admin pages and I noticed that the url for the form POST is a relative path "../admin/somethingorother." But the url for the page I was having trouble with (the moderator requests one) is an absolute path starting with http://servername/mailman/admindb/whatever. This was the issue b/c I had apache sending a redirect for any http://servername/mailman url to https://servername/mailman (to run it over SSL). The POST information was getting lost in the redirect.
Does anyone else run mailman over https? This worked great with the 2.0.x releases. Barry, can this be added as a configurable option? Or could that path just be made relative too?
Thanks, Rick
----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Ward" <gward@python.net> To: <mailman-developers@python.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Can't Approve/Reject/Discard from Admin WebInterface

On 30 October 2002, Rick Ennis said:
Hi... I have a quick question.
Sorry, I don't have any quick answers -- just more questions.
Which web browser, and on which OS? Which web server, and on which OS? What does your web server log say? Anything weird like an HTTP proxy server in the way? Have you tried running a packet tracer (I like ethereal myself) to the traffic between web browser and server to make sure it looks sane?
None of my files in the mailman/logs directory have been updated, nor my /var/log/messages file.
AFAIK Mailman does not use syslog, so /var/log/* should be irrelevant.
Do look in ~mailman/data though -- that's where it stores pending messages. When you approve/reject/discard a message, a file should disappear from that directory (I think).
Greg
-- Greg Ward <gward@python.net> http://www.gerg.ca/ Question authority!

Thanks for the response Greg. Actually I just figured it out. But it looks like I may be petitioning for a feature request or detail fix...
I was looking at the html source for one of the regular admin pages and I noticed that the url for the form POST is a relative path "../admin/somethingorother." But the url for the page I was having trouble with (the moderator requests one) is an absolute path starting with http://servername/mailman/admindb/whatever. This was the issue b/c I had apache sending a redirect for any http://servername/mailman url to https://servername/mailman (to run it over SSL). The POST information was getting lost in the redirect.
Does anyone else run mailman over https? This worked great with the 2.0.x releases. Barry, can this be added as a configurable option? Or could that path just be made relative too?
Thanks, Rick
----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Ward" <gward@python.net> To: <mailman-developers@python.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Developers] Can't Approve/Reject/Discard from Admin WebInterface
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