On 4/26/2012 1:39 PM, David wrote:
URL architecture is a concern to me because the URL should be a permanent address and it should not be overly complex or "ugly".
In a standard Mailman implementation, we see URLs similar to this:
Actually, in a standad source install of Mailman, you won't have the cgi-bin/ directory in the path. That's from a 3rd party package or someone who went out of the way to do that.
In a cpanel installation we see URLs similar to this:
http://server.example.com/mailman/options/ourlist_server.example.com/
I'm on a cpanel implementation. We are the only domain on the VPS. It is not a shared server. Is it possible to achieve a URL structure like this (with simple list name and no cgi-bin segment)?
Not if you use cPanel's Mailman and cPanel's list creation. It might be possible if you create lists with bin/newlist. You'd have to experiment.
As far as the cgi-bin/ segment is concerned, you don't need it. You don't even need the mailman/ segment if it wouldn't create conflicts to drop it. This is all controlled by the list's web_page_url attribute set at list creation time from the lists web host and DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN and Mailman's ScriptAlias or equivalent in the web server.
See FAQs at <http://wiki.list.org/x/mIA9> and <http://wiki.list.org/x/lYA9>.
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